Award-winning Peters’s latest book is a daring collection of four short pieces that resist easy categorization. The opening story, “Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones,” is a dystopian fantasy in which a vengeful trans woman has brought on a gender apocalypse through a hormonal pandemic, while the last tale, “The Masker,” is an erotic horror set in Las Vegas. In “The Chaser,” the book’s most affecting piece, an illicit affair between roommates at a Quaker boarding school leads to brutal consequences. Finally, the title piece, the longest and most esoteric of the collection, is a gloriously demented fable starring bandit lumberjacks who are invited to attend a dance as women, hoping to be courted by their fellow loggers. The implications are more challenging to unpack in this work than in Peters’s previous novel,
Detransition, Baby, but this collection hums with the same level of blazing insight and proves that she is an author of ferocious talent and range.
VERDICT A provocative and recommended addition to collections.
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