Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters review â a comedy of manners
This irresistible novel about wanting a child makes a careful distinction between âbeing transâ and âdoing transâ
Torrey Peters ... plays with the structural conventions of literary realism. Photograph: Natasha Gornik
Torrey Peters ... plays with the structural conventions of literary realism. Photograph: Natasha Gornik
GraceLavery
Thu 7 Jan 2021 04.00 EST
Last modified on Mon 11 Jan 2021 15.43 EST
If the title of Torrey Petersâs irresistible debut novel
Detransition, Baby sounds to you like a seductive invitation to slip back into a previous gender identity, you will be ill prepared for an altogether more uncanny seduction: the calming whispers of bourgeois realism.