Trina refuses to be that parent and the two, necessarily, split up-leaving Trina mourning, wounded, and unsure of the costs of a world without a connection to experiential histories.
Until, that is, Deeba decides to be recreated into a baby to live a whole new life: to be parented well, to give up her histories of trauma, to no longer hold the baggage of the pre-Seep past. Trina FastHorse Goldberg-Oneka is a fifty year old trans woman, married to the love of her life Deeba. Capitalism falls so, of equal import, does human mortality (except in cases of extreme physical misfortune or the personally-made choice to die). It is an alien entity that seeks symbiotic communion with life on earth-human and nonhuman animals, plants, objects-and in return for sharing our embodied being, it collapses distinctions, hierarchies, and systems into one shared experience. (Jan.The Seep arrives on our planet, and everything changes. Agent: Sarah Bolling, The Gernert Company. Readers will delight in the eerie disquietude and optimism of this well-calibrated what-if. Porter employs profound compassion and gentle humor to convey Trina’s fear of change and distrust of complacency.
Trina shakes her subsequent alcoholic depression just long enough to take on a “vengeful quest” to confront a former friend whom she fought with years before over identity politics, and to save a lost boy from the effects of the Seep. When Trina Goldberg-Oneka’s wife Deeba decides to reexperience her life from babyhood, Trina, a 50-year-old trans woman who remains suspicious of the changes wrought by the Seep, refuses to transition from the role of wife to mother, ending their relationship. The Seep, a well-meaning, symbiotic alien entity, causes hierarchies to breakdown, enhances technology beyond humankind’s wildest dreams, and functions as a mind-expanding drug that eliminates human mortality and grants people the power to transform their appearance at will. In Porter’s surreal, introspective debut, a benevolent alien invasion leads humanity into a utopia, exploring themes of grief and discontentment within a seemingly perfect world.
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