Queer Book Club - Stag Dance by Torrey Peters

Book Club will be on a Tuesday next month so we can use the back room at Young Ethel’s!

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We had a great time Tuesday talking about the words the will and the ways. For next month we chose to read, Stag Dance by Torrey Peters.

Our next meetup will be held on Tuesday May 27th at Young Ethel’s in Park Slope BK

This month we will be reading Stag Dance by Torrey Peters**

In 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.

In 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.

Three 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.

Acidly funny and breathtaking in its scope, with the inventive audacity of George Saunders or Jennifer Egan, Stag Dance provokes, unsettles, and delights.

**At the end of the discussion we can vote on which book we read for next month so bring a queer suggestion.

Make sure to support our amazing host bar, by buying drinks! They are so great to support us so we must do our part in return!

We are a lovely accepting group of queers and allies, and all are welcome!

Our book list is officially too long for meetup and will now live on this google doc!
Queer Book Club - Booklist
See you next month!