Stag Dance by Torrey Peters

Gay's the Word is thrilled to share the news that in 2025 Torrey Peters, the bestselling author of the incredible Detransition, Baby releases her new work: Stag Dance.
 
Publishes 13 March 2025. Pre-orders now welcome. 
 
Stag Dance explores trans life past, present and future in a genre-blending quartet of fictions. 
 
From the adventures of a lonely logger who, deep in the forest, joins his workmates to dance dressed as a woman, to the story of an obsessive boarding-school romance, to the dizzying spectacle of a gender apocalypse brought about by an unstable ex-girlfriend, Peters' keen eye for the rough edges of trans community and desire reveals fresh possibilities.
 
Acidly funny and breath-taking in its scope, with the inventive audacity of Lauren Groff or Jennifer Egan, Stag Dance provokes, unsettles and delights.
 
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'Peters confronts the unruliness of our desires' - New Yorker
 
 
Praise for Torrey Peters:

'So good I want to scream' - Carmen Maria Machado
 
'Utterly savage and lacerating while also conveying endlessly expanding compassion' - Garth Greenwell 
 
'Torrey Peters captures the grandiose, heartfelt and sometimes mangled aspirations of queer and trans people' - Chris Kraus