Thoughts 
by Torrey Peters, One World / Random House 2021, 340 pages
Challenge: TOB Summer Camp, Women’s Lit Prize Long List
Genre/Theme: Contemporary Lit, Trans Women, Motherhood
Type/Source: Hardcover / Library 14 day loan
What It’s About: A well-told well-organized humorous and sympathetic no-holds-barred look at a triad-parenting question. We meet Reese, a trans woman who desperately wants to be a mother, her ex-lover — originally James then Amy now Ames, and Ames’ boss/lover Katrina who in discovering herself pregnant, considers much more than just her future as a parent. What does it mean to be a family? What does it mean to want to be a mother? It’s all quite complicated.
Thoughts: A fascinating look at sex and gender and transsexuality and the human condition. The writing is vivid, it’s very readable – meaning that I didn’t want to put it down. Reese is a very unique multi-faceted character; prickly, wise, troubled and tender.
I only had one quibble about “women” wanting to be mothers or not and saw my own experience briskly dismissed – it’s not worthy mentioning. Of course, we tend to believe things that present as absolute and just are not. Tendencies to make grand statements and quip stereotypes; but that is probably just a reflection of society and reminder that we just can’t make grand statements about what certain people might think and believe. It’s damn complicated.
Rating: Four slices of pie. Lots of pie.
“When they moved to New York from Seattle, they did this thing where they invited other married couples over to watch Cheers and eat pie.”
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What is TOB Summer Camp? I suppose I shouldn’t be lazy and just Google it, ha ha.
Oh you know, the TOBers can’t get enough ot it! I try to follow it but I’m more a TOB=March person. OF COURSE, I read the wrong book first and my May is too packed. In fact! I was just invited to a new book club and they want to read Sue Monk Kidd’s latest BY JUNE 1! And the first book of Camp is the Patricia Lockwood. I have it but, do I have time? I got 6 more days to finish The Cold Millions, read Swann, finish The Three Musketeers by May 31 for Classics Club Spin and and and… wasn’t there something else? I bet my library holds will come in next week. Sigh
https://themorningnews.org/article/announcing-camp-tob-2021