An alien species arrives, and instead of invading it just seeps into everything — the water, the food, the bodies — and makes the world gentle. No scarcity, no illness, no death you don’t choose. Trina Goldberg-Oneka, a trans woman in her fifties, hates it. Then her wife decides to use the Seep to be reborn as a baby and start over, and Trina is left alone in a paradise with a grief nobody around her can even conceptualize anymore. It’s under two hundred pages, very funny, and it works as a book about utopia and a book about a bad breakup at the same time.
The Seep