Stag Dance

Detransition, Baby thrilled readers with its sharp, contemporary vision of family, gender and romance. Now Torrey Peters is back with a bold exploration of trans identity through the ages. From the adventures of a lonely logger who, deep in the forest, joins his workmates to dance dressed as a woman, to an obsessive boarding-school romance, to the dizzying spectacle of a gender apocalypse brought about an unstable ex-girlfriend, Peters' keen eye for the rough edges of trans community and desire reveals fresh possibilities. Acidly funny and breathtaking in its scope, with the inventive audacity of Lauren Groff or Jennifer Egan, Stag Dance provokes, unsettles and delights.