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A trans woman, her ex-boyfriend, and his pregnant wife form an unlikely family in New York, navigating parenthood, identity, and who gets to start over.
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Nevada
Maria Griffiths, a trans woman working at a New York bookstore, is dumped by her girlfriend, takes her car and drives west, where in a Nevada Walmart she meets James, a young man she suspects is trans and doesn't know it yet.
The First Bad Man
Cheryl Glickman, a fussy, solitary employee of a women's self-defence nonprofit in Los Angeles, agrees to let her bosses' sullen twenty-year-old daughter move in with her, and her ordered life comes apart.
Margo's Got Money Troubles
Margo, a twenty-year-old community college student in Southern California, gets pregnant by her English professor and decides to keep the baby, and broke and out of options, she starts an OnlyFans account with help from her father, a former pro wrestler.
Luster
Edie, a young Black woman in New York with a failing publishing job and a painting habit, starts seeing a white man in an open marriage and ends up living in his New Jersey house with his wife and their adopted daughter.
This Is How It Always Is
Rosie and Penn have four boisterous sons when their fifth, Claude, starts saying he wants to wear dresses and be a girl when he grows up, and the family moves across the country to give the child a fresh start.
All Fours
A semi-famous artist in her mid-forties sets out to drive alone from Los Angeles to New York, stops at a motel thirty minutes from home, and does not leave, spending a fortune remaking the room around a sudden obsession.
The Argonauts
Maggie Nelson writes about falling in love with the artist Harry Dodge, her pregnancy and his transition, braiding memoir with critical theory in a book that is entirely its own.
Big Swiss
Greta, who transcribes the recorded sessions of a sex and relationship coach in Hudson, New York, falls for a client she knows only as Big Swiss, and when she meets her by chance at the dog park, she starts an affair built on a lie.
Little Children
In a Boston suburb, Sarah, an unhappy stay-at-home mother, and Todd, the handsome stay-at-home father the playground mothers call the Prom King, start an affair, while the town panics over a sex offender who has moved back in with his mother.
Milk Fed
Rachel, a twenty-four-year-old talent-agency assistant in Los Angeles who controls her life through strict rules about food, falls for the zaftig Orthodox Jewish woman who works at her frozen yogurt shop.
Dept. of Speculation
A wife and mother in New York tracks her disintegrating marriage in spare, telegraphic fragments that add up to a devastating portrait of modern domestic life.
Perfume & Pain
Astrid Dahl, a lesbian novelist cancelled after a West Hollywood bookstore event, retreats to her Sapphic Scribes writing group, tries to give up pills and drink, and falls for nearly every woman in her orbit while her agent waits for the next book.