
Stag Dance: A Quartet
Torrey Peters
Three stories and a title novella about trans desire and identity, from a pandemic dystopia to a lumber-camp tall tale. Pick it for formal daring and range.
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Torrey Peters
Three stories and a title novella about trans desire and identity, from a pandemic dystopia to a lumber-camp tall tale. Pick it for formal daring and range.

Katie Kitamura
An actress meets a young man who may be her son, and the story then restarts with the same people in a different configuration. A short, unsettling novel about identity and performance.

Gayl Jones
A Black WWII veteran in the postwar South becomes fixated on a horned carnival performer. A strange, understated novel from a singular writer.

Rita Bullwinkel
Eight teenage girls fight a boxing tournament in Reno over a hot weekend, with no dialogue and a roving omniscient voice. Choose it for muscular, lyrical prose and structure.

Stacey Levine
Two sisters and a housekeeper in a deliberately artificial 1960s Florida, in a comic, strange novel about belonging and conformity. For readers who enjoy skewed language and deadpan humour.
