Stag Dance

Spellbinding ... 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
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' 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 *
Praise for Detransition, Baby: Emotionally generous, richly textured, and deeply intelligent - a vibrant and kaleidoscopic portrait of complicated women and their colliding lives -- Claire Lombardo
So good I want to scream -- Carmen Maria Machado
Peters confronts the unruliness of our desires, and our vitality as we struggle within their limits -- New Yorker
Utterly savage and lacerating while also conveying endlessly expanding compassion. -- Garth Greenwell
I devoured these four tales with obsessive speed. Peters writes about 'the other' in such fresh, dark ink, without apology and with the wickedest tongue -- Jodie Harsh, author of You Had To Be There