Please join us on Monday, June 23, for a Special Book Discussion about Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters. This national bestseller and highly-praised novel follows “the lives of three women–transgender and cisgender–after an unexpected pregnancy forces them to confront their deepest desires.”
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BOOK DESCRIPTION
A whipsmart debut about three very different women–transgender and cisgender–whose lives collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces them to confront their deepest desires around gender, motherhood, and sex.
Reese almost had it all: a loving relationship with Amy, an apartment in New York City, a job she didn’t hate. She had scraped together what previous generations of trans women could only dream of: a life of mundane, bourgeois comforts. The only thing missing was a child. But then her girlfriend, Amy, detransitioned and became Ames, and everything fell apart. Now Reese is caught in a self-destructive pattern: avoiding her loneliness by sleeping with married men.
Ames isn’t happy either. He thought detransitioning to live as a man would make life easier, but that decision cost him his relationship with Reese–and losing her meant losing his only family. Even though their romance is over, he longs to find a way back to her. When Ames’s boss and lover, Katrina, reveals that she’s pregnant with his baby–and that she’s not sure whether she wants to keep it–Ames wonders if this is the chance he’s been waiting for. Could the three of them form some kind of unconventional family–and raise the baby together?
This provocative debut is about what happens at the emotional, messy, vulnerable corners of womanhood that platitudes and good intentions can’t reach. Torrey Peters brilliantly and fearlessly navigates the most dangerous taboos around gender, sex, and relationships, gifting us a thrillingly original, witty, and deeply moving novel.
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Copies of Detransition, Baby can be picked up from the Book Discussion Shelf on our first floor, and it’s also available digitally as an ebook (through Libby/Overdrive) and an audiobook (through Libby/Overdrive).
An in-person discussion of Detransition, Baby will be held at the library on Monday, June 23, at 6:30 PM. No registration is required, so please join us if you’d like to be part of the discussion.
Published on June 2, 2025.
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