For the past few months, I’ve been completing one book per week as part of a reading challenge that is proving rigorous but delightful.
I’ve recaptured some of the uncomplicated joy of reading I remember from childhood, when books were home base, a place I was always trying to get back to.
When I’d reread a book just to spend more time with its characters. I had this experience with Torrey Peters’s “Detransition, Baby,” which won the PEN/Hemingway Award in February.
I first read the book last winter, but I found myself wondering recently about one of its characters, Reese, a transgender woman trying to decide whether she wants to start a family with her ex and her ex’s new girlfriend.