Detransition, Baby: Longlisted for the Women's Prize 2021 and Top Ten The Times

Description: Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters A uniquely trans take on love, motherhood, and those exes who you just cant quit. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMENS PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021February 2021 Book of the Month for Roxane Gays Book ClubIrresistible ... Detransition, Baby is the first great trans realist novel - GuardianA voraciously knowing, compulsively readable novel - Chris KrausTremendously funny and sexy as hell - Juliet JacquesReese nearly had it all: a loving relationship with Amy, an apartment in New York, a job she didnt hate. Shed scraped together a life previous generations of trans women could only dream of; the only thing missing was a child. Then everything fell apart and three years on Reese is still in self-destruct mode, avoiding her loneliness by sleeping with married men.When her ex calls to ask if she wants to be a mother, Reese finds herself intrigued. After being attacked in the street, Amy de-transitioned to become Ames, changed jobs and, thinking he was infertile, started an affair with his boss Katrina. Now Katrinas pregnant. Could the three of them form an unconventional family - and raise the baby together?So good I want to scream - Carmen Maria Machado Author Biography Torrey Peters lives in Brooklyn and holds an MFA from the University of Iowa and a Masters in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth. She is the author of two novellas, Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones and The Masker. @torreypeters Review So good I want to scream - Carmen Maria MachadoIrresistible ... Perhaps Detransition, Baby is the first great trans realist novel? Witty, elegant and rigorously plotted, Peterss book breezily plays with the structural conventions of literary realism ... Peterss novel approaches the well trodden topic of baby fever, and although it renders the specificity of trans community and subjectivity in vivid, electric prose, its real appeal is much wider. - Grace LaveryThe smartest novel Ive read in ages ... it manages to be utterly savage & lacerating while also conveying endlessly expanding compassion. Its kind of a miracle. - Garth GreenwellDetransition, Baby is emotionally generous, richly textured, and deeply intelligent - a vibrant and kaleidoscopic portrait of complicated women and their colliding lives. - Claire Lombardo, New York Times-bestselling author of The Most Fun We Ever HadDetransition, Baby updates and transcends (trans-scends!) the Sex and the City model, while fully delivering its many satisfactions! ... A noteworthy advance in the history of the novel! - Elif Batuman Promotional A uniquely trans take on love, motherhood, and those exes who you just cant quit Long Description A uniquely trans take on love, motherhood, and those exes who you just cant quit. LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMENS PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021 February 2021 Book of the Month for Roxane Gays Book Club Irresistible ... Detransition, Baby is the first great trans realist novel - Guardian A voraciously knowing, compulsively readable novel - Chris Kraus Tremendously funny and sexy as hell - Juliet Jacques Reese nearly had it all: a loving relationship with Amy, an apartment in New York, a job she didnt hate. Shed scraped together a life previous generations of trans women could only dream of; the only thing missing was a child. Then everything fell apart and three years on Reese is still in self-destruct mode, avoiding her loneliness by sleeping with married men. When her ex calls to ask if she wants to be a mother, Reese finds herself intrigued. After being attacked in the street, Amy de-transitioned to become Ames, changed jobs and, thinking he was infertile, started an affair with his boss Katrina. Now Katrinas pregnant. Could the three of them form an unconventional family - and raise the baby together? So good I want to scream - Carmen Maria Machado Review Text So good I want to scream - Carmen Maria Machado Irresistible ... Perhaps Detransition, Baby is the first great trans realist novel? Witty, elegant and rigorously plotted, Peterss book breezily plays with the structural conventions of literary realism ... Peterss novel approaches the well trodden topic of baby fever, and although it renders the specificity of trans community and subjectivity in vivid, electric prose, its real appeal is much wider. - Grace Lavery The smartest novel Ive read in ages ... it manages to be utterly savage & lacerating while also conveying endlessly expanding compassion. Its kind of a miracle. - Garth Greenwell Detransition, Baby is emotionally generous, richly textured, and deeply intelligent - a vibrant and kaleidoscopic portrait of complicated women and their colliding lives. - Claire Lombardo, New York Times-bestselling author of The Most Fun We Ever Had Detransition, Baby updates and transcends (trans-scends!) the Sex and the City model, while fully delivering its many satisfactions! ... A noteworthy advance in the history of the novel! - Elif Batuman Promotional "Headline" A uniquely trans take on love, motherhood, and those exes who you just cant quit Details ISBN1788167228 Author Torrey Peters Pages 368 Publisher Profile Books Ltd Year 2022 ISBN-10 1788167228 ISBN-13 9781788167222 Format Paperback Imprint Serpents Tail Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2022-01-06 Publication Date 2022-01-06 UK Release Date 2022-01-06 Subtitle Longlisted for the Womens Prize 2021 and Top Ten The Times Bestseller Edition Description Main DEWEY 813.6 Audience General NZ Release Date 2022-02-28 Alternative 9781782838128 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:135538926;

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