{"product_id":"stag-dance-a-quartet","title":"Stag Dance: A Quartet","description":"\u003cp\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER - \"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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Hot, heartbreaking, and thrillingly victorious.\"--Miranda July, New York Times bestselling author of All Fours\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE - ONE OF VULTURE'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR - A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, Electric Lit, them, Chicago Public Library\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this collection of one novel and three stories, bestselling author Torrey Peters's keen eye for the rough edges of community and desire push the limits of trans writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Stag Dance, the titular novel, a group of restless lumberjacks working in an illegal winter logging outfit plan a dance that some of them will volunteer to attend as women. When the broadest, strongest, plainest of the axmen announces his intention to dance as a woman, he finds himself caught in a strange rivalry with a pretty young jack, provoking a cascade of obsession, jealousy, and betrayal that will culminate on the big night in an astonishing vision of gender and transition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree startling stories surround Stag Dance \"Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones\" imagines a gender apocalypse brought about by an unstable ex-girlfriend. In \"The Chaser,\" a secret romance between roommates at a Quaker boarding school brings out intrigue and cruelty. In the last story, \"The Masker,\" a party weekend on the Las Vegas strip turns dark when a young crossdresser must choose between two guides: a handsome mystery man who objectifies her in thrilling ways, or a cynical veteran trans woman offering unglamorous sisterhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcidly funny and breathtaking in its scope, with the inventive audacity of George Saunders or Jennifer Egan, Stag Dance provokes, unsettles, and delights.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47619789783281,"sku":"9780593446355","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0703\/1468\/8753\/files\/9780593446355.jpg?v=1766858955","url":"https:\/\/cellarbirdbooks.com\/products\/stag-dance-a-quartet","provider":"Cellar Bird Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}