Stag Dance by Torrey Peters (Random Home, March 11)
Final however not least, Torrey Peters, the best-selling writer of Detransition, Child, is again this 12 months with a novel and a set of tales exploring gender, sexuality, and extra. First up, the titular novel Stag Dance tells the story of a bunch of lumberjacks who convey pleasure to their lonely nights by placing on dances. When among the woodsmen volunteer to play ladies on the dances, secret needs are revealed. This assortment at all times features a sci-fi story set sooner or later the place everybody chooses their very own gender, a love story between two roommates at a Quaker boarding faculty, and a narrative of a Vegas weekend gone terribly incorrect when a younger crossdresser is pressured to decide on between a glamorous lifetime of objectification or a much less glitzy lifetime of respect and sisterhood.