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ISBN:
9780593289495
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" NATIONAL BESTSELLER &bull,&ldquo,n unforgettable portrait of three women, trans and cis, who wrestle with questions of motherhood and family making . Detransition, Baby might destroy your book club, but in a good way.&rdquo,mdash,ndrea Lawlor, author of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl &ldquo, tale of love, loss, and self-discovery as singular as it is universal, and all the sweeter for it.&rdquo,mdash,i〉Entertainment Weekly Longlisted for The Women&rsquo, Prize &bull,Roxane Gay&rsquo, Audacious Book Club Pick &bull,#160, Marie Claire Book Club Pick &bull, New York Times Editors&rsquo,Choice 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&mdash,nd 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&mdash,nd that she's not sure whether she wants to keep it&mdash,mes wonders if this is the chance he's been waiting for. Could the three of them form some kind of unconventional family&mdash,nd 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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Biographisches: " Torrey Peters is a writer living in Brooklyn. She is the author of two novellas, Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones and The Masker . She also holds an MFA from the University of Iowa and a master's in comparative literature from Dartmouth." Rezension(2): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: November 23, 2020 Peters’s sharp comedy (after Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones ) charts the shifting dynamics of gender, relationships, and family as played out in three characters’ exploration of trans femininity. Reese, a trans woman from the Midwest now living in New York City, is in the throes of an affair with a kinky, dominant, and married man. Ames, Reese’s ex who has detransitioned since their breakup three years earlier, is now with his boss, a divorced cis woman named Katrina. When Katrina gets pregnant, Ames must reckon with his gender once again. Katrina intends to get an abortion if Ames leaves her, and he comes up with a solution so crazy it just might work. He cannot be a father, but he can be a parent (“He knew, however, that Katrina didn’t have the queer background to allow for that distinction”), and Reese, more than anything, wants to be a mother,desperate, Ames asks Reese if she will be a co-mother,he also confesses to Katrina that he once lived as a woman. As Reese, Katrina, and Ames reckon with the possibility and difficulties of forming a family, their quick wit gets them through heavy scenes (Reese on Katrina’s “AIDS panic”: “How retro”). Peters conceives of a world so lovable and complex, it’s hard to let go. Agent: Kent Wolf, Neon Literary. "
Language:
English
Keywords:
Hörbuch
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