Library of Brothel

“It’s a proper achievement and it’s not like anything else.” —Eimear McBride

“I am just in awe of Anakana Schofield. I read her like poetry, letting the accumulation of language and ideas to create something in my brain. I loved Library of Brothel; it is weird and edgy, a wrecking ball that is very Anakana. She is one of the few people doing something different and virtuous.” —Yuri Herrera

“Schofield has always pushed form in her novels, but she tips it off the cliff in this one, set in a mysterious building with moving rooms whose worker denizens—led by Noble Leader (“a fatter Fidel Castro without cigars”)—are allowed to engage in intellectual pursuits as long as they conform to a very specific series of house rules (unpublished poetry, gardening tools and mouth organs are all banned).”
—The Globe and Mail

“Anakana Schofield’s fiction has always demanded attention with its innovative structures and intellectual challenges. Her latest, Library of Brothel, is perhaps the most fabulist of all. In a library besieged by the outside world, the various rooms themselves jostle with each other for what is valued and how they can coexist.” —Quill and Quire

“As a reader, I am thrilled by how far and how deep [Schofield] drives her narratives; as a writer, I am deeply jealous of how confident, ornery, and funny [her] books are . . . Library of Brothel is a big swing of a novel.” —Nathan Whitlock, The Walrus