Stag Dance

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“This inventive, boundary-pushing follow-up to Detransition, Baby . . . [takes] on gender, transness and lives on the margins in all of their gorgeously complicated glory.”—People

“Ever buy something at the supermarket and the sticker advertises 30% more? That’s the vibe Stag Dance is giving. . . . You’ll definitely get your money’s worth with this one, and knowing how stellar Peters is on the page, it’ll be more than filling.”—them

“Innovative, insightful, funny, and confronting.”—The Independent

“Peters is a holy, dreadful storyteller, her words divine and her characters brutally real, her talent awe-inspiring, her vision immense. Her writing tears your guts out. It leaves you gasping. This is fiction that makes you drop to your knees—fiction at its very best.”—Julia Phillips, bestselling author of Bear

“Torrey Peters is often describing something that has never been described before and it’s never something minor, it’s something massive that has been missing from our understanding and enjoyment of the world. Stag Dance is hot, heartbreaking, and thrillingly victorious.”—Miranda July, New York Times bestselling author of All Fours

“A spellbinding collection of genre-blurring novellas, set in worlds familiar and far-flung . . . With pathos and wit, Torrey Peters explores characters who find themselves on the brink of self-discovery while also grappling with the challenge and promise of community. I loved this book.”—Brit Bennett, New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Half

“The stories in Stag Dance are potent and surprising and take no prisoners. How exquisitely Peters writes about the way we move toward ourselves—with the clarity of desire and the agony of resistance.”—Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House

“This is what I want from fiction. It starts at a place of real vulnerability, goes all the way down its own rabbit hole, and ends up potent and strange.”—Imogen Binnie, author of Nevada

“Peters is a holy, dreadful storyteller, her words divine and her characters brutally real, her talent awe-inspiring, her vision immense. Her writing tears your guts out. It leaves you gasping. This is fiction that makes you drop to your knees—fiction at its very best.”—Julia Phillips, bestselling author of Bear

“Stag Dance is a brilliant literary kaleidoscope. Peters shatters the familiar in four bold and imaginative tales, each powerful enough to reshape our understanding of transness and where we find it.”—Nicola Dinan, author of Bellies

“Electrifying. . . The funny yet heart-wrenching title novella, set sometime during the primacy of steam engines and written in the style of a tall tale, may be Peters’s best work yet.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review
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