Peters conceives of a world so lovable and complex, it’s hard to let go. As Reese, Katrina, and Ames reckon with the possibility and difficulties of forming a family, their quick wit gets them through heavy scenes (Reese on Katrina’s “AIDS panic”: “How retro”). He cannot be a father, but he can be a parent (“He knew, however, that Katrina didn’t have the queer background to allow for that distinction”), and Reese, more than anything, wants to be a mother desperate, Ames asks Reese if she will be a co-mother he also confesses to Katrina that he once lived as a woman. Katrina intends to get an abortion if Ames leaves her, and he comes up with a solution so crazy it just might work. When Katrina gets pregnant, Ames must reckon with his gender once again. Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones by Torrey Peters 4.50 2 Ratings 4 Want to read 0 Currently reading 3 Have read Overview View 1 Edition Details Reviews Lists Related Books Publish Date Publisher CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Pages 76 This edition doesn't have a description yet. Ames, Reese’s ex who has detransitioned since their breakup three years earlier, is now with his boss, a divorced cis woman named Katrina. Reese, a trans woman from the Midwest now living in New York City, is in the throes of an affair with a kinky, dominant, and married man. Peters’s sharp comedy (after Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones) charts the shifting dynamics of gender, relationships, and family as played out in three characters’ exploration of trans femininity.
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