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STAG DANCE
Rights sold: Finnish: Kosmos; German: Ullstein; Italian: Mondadori Libri; Spanish (Spain): Levanta Fuego
In this collection of one novel and three novellas, the bestselling author of Detransition, Baby pushes trans-genre to its limits to explore who gets included—and excluded—from the possibilities of gender.
In Stag Dance, this collection’s titular novel, a Paul Bunyan-type lumberjack working an illegal winter logging outfit recounts how the lonely woodsmen entertain themselves with a dance at which some of the loggers must volunteer to attend as women. Obsession, repressed desires, and betrayal lead up to the big night, as The Lumberjack grows increasingly jealous of Lisen, the prettiest young man in camp, weaving a surreal tall tale that questions the nature of transition.
Three equally visionary novellas surround Stag Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones imagines a sci-fi future in which everyone must choose their own gender—the vengeful consequence of a rogue trio of charismatic trans women who destroy civilization as we know it. In The Chaser, a secret romance between roommates at a Quaker boarding school brings out intrigue and cruelty. In the last novella, The Masker, a party weekend on the Las Vegas strip turns horrific when a young crossdresser must choose between two a handsome mystery man who objectifies her in thrilling ways, or a cynical veteran trans woman offering unglamorous sisterhood.
Radical, witty, and gripping, these four narratives coalesce to form a portrait of identity-in-crisis that unsettles and delights.
www.torreypeters.com
Stag Dance is a most anticipated book of 2025 in Time, USA Today, People, Rolling Stone, them, She Reads, Pride, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, The Guardian, and The Independent!
Read Torrey’s piece on escaping Trump’s first few days in office in New York Magazine.
Stag Dance is a March Indie Next Pick!
It’s a best book of spring in Bustle and Town & Country!
And a best book of the month in Cultured, Women.com, TIME, BookRiot, AV Club, Autostraddle, The Week, All Arts and Electric Lit!
“Everyone on earth should read the main story in [Stag Dance]. . . . [It’s] just about the most exciting piece of writing I’ve encountered in years.”
—Slate
“[Peters] examines the messy underbelly of DIY trans culture, diving into the cringier aspects of queer growing pains. The stories, jagged tales of sissies, losers, and assholes, showcase [an] expansive palette and are written with sharp prose that crackles with transgressive glee. . . . This is the ache and triumph of Peters’s fiction, the ability to strive for more even as we disappoint each other over and over again.”
—New York
“Strange, sexy, and often arrestingly beautiful . . . Stag Dance is unlike anything else you’ll read this year.”
—Vogue
“Peters masterfully wields her narrators’ dilemmas, their conflicting wants and needs, the way they vacillate between euphoria and shame…Characters needn’t be lovable, of course; one of Peters’s strengths is that she doesn’t write tidy representatives of trans identity but rather messy, complex and in-progress human beings. . . . Stag Dance is a marvelous follow-up to a tremendous debut.”
—The Washington Post
“[Stag Dance] playfully wreaks havoc with the tenuous barriers established by gender conventions. These stories . . . share a strain of dark humor and a gimlet-eyed interest in trans experiences.”
—NPR
“Peters excels at plumbing the murky hearts of queer people. Her characters betray one another and themselves, and occasionally end the world in their desire for revenge. . . . A great Torrey Peters story feels like punching yourself in the face, laughing at the bleeding bitch in the mirror and then shamefacedly realizing you’re aroused by the blood on your lips. The four pieces in Stag Dance will leave you bruised, broken and wanting more.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“Torrey Peters moves nimbly between scenes of a hormone-affecting pandemic and a logging camp plagued by a mysterious beast, with vivid characters ever exploring gender and connection.”
—Vanity Fair
“From one of the boldest, most innovative voices in fiction today, this collection of short stories (and one novella!) explores gender, identity, and transness. The settings range from a post-apocalyptic Seattle where a pandemic has stopped humans’ production of sex hormones to a boarding school dorm room in which a high school junior begins a clandestine affair with his femme roommate, but what unites them is Torrey Peters’ masterful and unflinching depiction of desire.”
—Bustle, Best Books of Spring
“Sincere and mind-bending. . . [Stag Dance] is more exciting than anything else around.”
—New York
“Peters’s writing always grabs your attention, and [Stag Dance perfectly showcases her] acid wit, incredible talent, and eye for possibility.”
—Chicago Review of Books
“Torrey Peters returns with a collection that pulses with fever-dream intensity. . . . Dreamlike and unsettling, knife-edged and macabrely witty, Stag Dance demands to be discussed.”
—Women.com
“Stag Dance further establishes [Peters] as an essential voice in queer literature.”
—AV Club
“A brilliant, mind-blowing book . . . Peters’ vision is one where gender roles are never stagnant, and the world is made new by queerness.”
—BookPage
“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
“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. . . . Peters explores her characters’ conundrums with striking honesty, revealing how they’re bound by indecision and insecurities from finding happiness, and she exhibits spectacular flexibility with language and form. It’s a marvel.”
—Publishers Weekly (*starred review*)
“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
“The stories in Stag Dance are potent and surprising and take no prisoners. How exquisitely Peters writes about the way we move towards ourselves—with the clarity of desire and the agony of resistance.”
—Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House
“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
“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
“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
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