Stag dance

Trans life past, present and future is explored in this kaleidoscopic follow-up to the Women´s Prize-nominated Detransition, Baby From the adventures of a lonely logger who, deep in the forest, joins his workmates to dance dressed as a woman, to the story of an obsessive boarding- school romance, to the dizzying spectacle of a gender apocalypse brought about by an unstable ex-girlfriend, Peters´ keen eye for the rough edges of trans community and desire reveals fresh possibilities. Acidly funny and breath-taking in its scope, with the inventive audacity of Lauren Groff or Jennifer Egan, Stag Dance provokes, unsettles and delights.