Detransition Baby by Torrey Peters

Navigating the complicated waters of family-making and motherhood in the twenty-first century, this exciting and very funny debut follows the lives of three trans and cis women living in New York.

Reese nearly had it all: a loving relationship with Amy, an apartment in New York, a job she didn't hate. She'd scraped together a life previous generations of trans women could only dream of; the only thing missing was a child. Then everything fell apart and three years on Reese is still in self-destruct mode, avoiding her loneliness by sleeping with married men.

When her ex calls to ask if she wants to be a mother, Reese finds herself intrigued. After being attacked in the street, Amy de-transitioned to become Ames, changed jobs and, thinking he was infertile, started an affair with his boss Katrina. Now Katrina's pregnant.

Could the three of them form an unconventional family - and raise the baby together?

Longlisted for the Women's Prize For Fiction 2021.

Shortlisted for the 2022 National Book Critics' John Leonard Prize.

"One of the weirdest books I've ever read about three women, one trans-woman, one ex-trans-woman, and one cis-woman with complicated ex- and present-relationships who contemplate raising an unborn child together. I couldn't stop reading!"