Ell commented on Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
A whipsmart debut about three women--transgender and cisgender--whose lives collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces …
Like, I knew this book was going to be trans, obviously, but damn. I wasn't expecting it to go this hard.
More specifically: overwhelmingly trans-femme, trauma like woah, characters that are messy as heck, in a way that feels very close, hewn to the messy reality that is coping with a world that doesn't want you to exist, not shying away from the many ways that we find to make do and survive.