Woodsmen

A man's body becomes a woman's over one logging contract, in the most masculine place imaginable.Joel Briggs has been on crews long enough to know how a remote camp works. Who hooks left in a fight. How many feet to the latch. When his body starts changing under his clothes, those calculations stop being abstract. He sits by the door of the mess trailer through a three-day rain, watching Terrence drag his right heel, watching the clearance between Walt's chair and the stove, eighteen inches from his left hand to the door.The fever passes. The chest doesn't. The hips widen. He layers a flannel over a hoodie over a thermal and keeps his elbows tucked against his ribs, and the only one who clocks what he's actually afraid of is Dana, who know what it means to be a woman in a male-coded space.Whatever this is, it has weeks left to finish, and there's no road out until the grader comes up the mountain.The Woodsmen is a slow, embodied transformation novel about a man becoming a woman in the place least built to hold a woman's body - and what the crew does, and doesn't say, when the gear stops fitting him.