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omnomicons 's review for:
Detransition, Baby
by Torrey Peters
Reading this book reminded me of how important having diverse authors in your library is. I wouldn’t consider myself an ignorant person (I guess ignorant people wouldn’t consider themselves as such either) but the truth is, I’m not fully educated on the trans community. Though fiction shouldn’t be the only way anyone is exposed to new people, Detransition, Baby melds together a compelling narrative with an inside view of the characters informed by Peters’s experience as a trans person herself. However, I think some of the exchanges characters have drag on too long, and I want the book to decide whether it actually wants to switch perspectives or not, because it currently kind of goes halfway on that. I want to clarify that this book is a great novel by itself, without the lens of being a “trans book”, and I’ve been recommending it like crazy.