Detransition, Baby

Author(s): Torrey Peters

Trans & Gender Diverse Fiction | Fiction Transgender

A uniquely trans take on love, motherhood, and those exes who you just can't quit. 

Reese nearly had it all: a loving relationship with Amy, an apartment in New York, a job she didn't hate. She'd 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 Katrina's pregnant. Could the three of them form an unconventional family - and raise the baby together? 

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021 

'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 

'So good I want to scream' - Carmen Maria Machado 

March 2022


Lambda Award Finalist 2022


Transgender Fiction


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9781788167222
  • : Profile Books
  • : Serpent's Tail
  • : 0.32
  • : 01 February 2022
  • : 3 Centimeters X 12.6 Centimeters X 19.6 Centimeters
  • : 01 March 2022
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : FA
  • : 368
  • : 813.6
  • : English
  • : Paperback
  • : Torrey Peters