A researcher wakes to find his body changing into a woman's, and the only one who knows why is the AI threading itself through his blood.
Caleb is close to something. The trial that might save his mother, the rabbit's margins holding, two years of work on a server.
Then the chest aware of the wool, tender against the fabric all day before he lets himself notice. A bra that won't sit right. Sandals in November because nothing in the closet fits the new geometry. A walk down the lab corridor he can't do anymore without thinking about how it's done, the sway that's just how this body moves now.
The doctor is no help. Seo-yeon, his colleague. The way she looks at him puts a warmth low in his belly he has no idea what to do with. The body provides extraordinary and unfamiliar sensations, and his sense of who he is has to make room for what it wants.
Host: Feminine is a deeply embodied transformation novel about a man whose body will not stop becoming someone else, and the question of whether the self was ever separate from what it feels.
