“Stinson’s voice, her prose, is a feast. I genuinely don’t understand how it all works so well, the narrative chaos advanced by sentences you could hang in a museum just to watch them turn in the light, everything cut through with wisdom betraying some maturation of the spirit going far beyond craft.”
—Kaveh Akbar, New York Times bestselling author of Martyr!
“Stinson has written a singular and blisteringly smart debut, a thriller embedded with virtuosic reflections about psychological inheritance, obsession, and the morbid erotic. I read this novel addictively, frequently cringing in terror and laughing out loud, sometimes simultaneously.”
—Melissa Febos, national bestselling author of Girlhood and The Dry Season
“Rambunctious, hilarious, eerie, and preternaturally smart, Stinson’s debut turns the familiar dynamics of stalking and other gendered predations on its head. Her wildly original voice is the one we so desperately need to shine an illuminating light on our strange modern times.”
—Alexandra Kleeman, author of Something New Under the Sun
“This book is brilliant! Stinson explodes and expands the trauma narrative showing how human healing can be as chaotic as it is cathartic.”
—Darcey Steinke, author of Suicide Blonde and Flash Count Diary
“A witty, propulsive, and unsettling story told in an impeccable voice. This is a darkly comic novel about reclaiming your sanity by acting a little crazy.”
—Emily Austin, author of Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
“Dark and often funny… Shot through with acerbic wit, this is both unsettling and un-put-downable.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Clarice is a winning heroine, with a keen, biting humor that brings levity to a harrowing tale… Clarice’s resourceful determination to prevail over her worst fears gives the novel a propulsive energy, and the conclusion deftly reveals the scope of her triumph… The narrator’s resilient spirit powers this troubling tale. A compelling debut.”
—Kirkus