![]() ![]() But their budding domestic life dissolved before they got that far, when Ames began to detransition-not, the book makes clear, because he had erred in his decision to exist openly as a woman, but because it was too difficult to do so. ![]() ![]() Their history-which unfurls slowly in the pages that follow, as the story moves seamlessly from present to past-is that Ames once lived as a trans woman, went by Amy, and in that era lived with Reese in an apartment by Prospect Park, in Brooklyn, where they planned to raise a child. Photograph by Natasha GornikĪt the beginning of “ Detransition, Baby,” a dishy, engrossing new novel by Torrey Peters, a trans woman named Reese receives a phone call from her ex, Ames, who has an unusual proposition for her. In refusing to avoid the sore spots of trans life, Torrey Peters offers a lucidity that would be impossible if her only goal were to inspire sympathy. ![]()
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