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Ell

cincodenada@bookwyrm.cincodenada.com

Joined 5 years, 1 month ago

Admin of bookwyrm.cincodenada.com, as you might expect. Endlessly curious engineer; something approaching, say, genderqueer. Third rhyme with dactyl feet: it goes here.

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Torrey Peters: Detransition, Baby (Hardcover, 2021, One World)

A whipsmart debut about three women--transgender and cisgender--whose lives collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces …

Wow. I don't know exactly how I feel about this book, except that it's a lot. Certainly like nothing I've read before, and full of so much that refuses to be categorized. I guess no one is likely to come into this book expecting a light read, and it is not. It's about three complicated people and their failures, triumphs, griefs, uncertainties, inconsistencies, desires, hopes. And a whole lot of gender.

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Torrey Peters: Detransition, Baby (Hardcover, 2021, One World)

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.