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A review by alicechris
Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
4.5
This is such a brilliant book - the character work is exceptional and I also really enjoyed the strong sense of place. The exploration of queer motherhood and parenthood really touched me and I'm sure will impact the ways I think about family for a long time. The way Peters simultaneously maintains a sense of hope but also an inevitability that things probably won't work out kept me gripped and I finished this book in a couple of days.
My one reservation is the extent to which characters are defined in this book through their sex lives. I wasn't expecting this book to be so sexy because I got this from my work library, so this is probably partly on me - and I suspect the conflicted feelings I'm having on this are an intentional part of the book. This being said - I would have liked to see the characters explored outside of their sex lives a little more, as it left me with a slightly incomplete sense of them as people.
My one reservation is the extent to which characters are defined in this book through their sex lives. I wasn't expecting this book to be so sexy because I got this from my work library, so this is probably partly on me - and I suspect the conflicted feelings I'm having on this are an intentional part of the book. This being said - I would have liked to see the characters explored outside of their sex lives a little more, as it left me with a slightly incomplete sense of them as people.