Tuesday Evening Book Club reads Stag Dance by Torrey Peters

Name: Tuesday Evening Book Club reads Stag Dance by Torrey Peters
Start: 2026-06-09T18:30:00-04:00
End: 2026-06-09T19:30:00-04:00
Location: 26300 Evergreen Rd, Southfield, MI, United States, Michigan 48076

Schedule

Tue Jun 09 2026 at 06:30 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

26300 Evergreen Rd, Southfield, MI, United States, Michigan 48076 | Southfield, MI

The Tuesday Evening Book Club will be discussing Stag Dance by Torrey Peters
Join us on June 9th in the Meeting Room or join virtually on Zoom!
In this collection of one novel and three novellas, 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 novellas 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 novella, 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.
This book discussion is in honor of John and Dorothy Creecy who were instrumental in the opening of the Southfield Public Library and loved to share literature with the community.
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