Stag Dance by Torrey Peters

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