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"Walsh handles the seismic events of life―a child in intensive care, a pregnancy morphing the body―with a
sort of alien bluntness and mania for category that forces her language into bizarre, thrilling new shapes. A
mind-blowing must-read."―Left Bank Books, staff pick
" is artful, intelligent...Walsh is a sublimely elegant writer."―New Statesman
"From the publisher that unearthed the brilliant and now-lauded Nell Zink comes another slim work of fiction as strange
as it is compelling. is a funny, absurd collection of stories."―The Huffington Post
"Think Renata Adler's Speedboat with a faster engine... reads with the exhilarating speed and concentrated force
of a poetry collection. Each word seems carefully weighed and prodded for sound, taste, touch...The stories are
delicate, but they leave a strong impression, a lasting sense of detachment colliding with feeling, a heady
destabilization."―Los Angeles Times
"Her writing sways between the tense and the absurd, as if it's hovering between this world and another. This time last
year, Dorothy brought us Nell Zink's THE WALLCREEPER. Walsh's may similarly redistribute the possibilities of
contemporary fiction, especially if it meets with the wider audience her work demands."―Flavorwire, "33 Must Read Books
for Fall 2015"
"Beautifully simple and unembellished, Walsh's writing―most captivating in its ability to unnerve―is cleverly revealing
of her protagonist's unique and sensitive personality."―The Guardian
"Reading has opened even wider my conceptions of what's possible in fiction―how a book can be like a series of
photographs, like cinema. These stories appear as much as they engage with narrative, saturated with a calm yet rich
color. I've not read anything like it and feel it is quietly subverting the hell out of the form."―Amina Cain
"Stunning short, sharp shocks with in that reminds me of the very personal work of Clarice Lispector...Packs a
wallop into a very small space. I suspect this will get some year-end kudos."―Jeff Vendermeer
"This collection of work from 3:AM fiction editor Joanna Walsh makes the familiar alien, breaking down and remaking
quotidian situations, and in the process turning them into gripping literature."―Vol. 1 Brooklyn
"Supple, floating stories that unfold like memories almost too painful to recall in an affectless voice that can be
digressive or disarmingly direct but which is ultimately devastating."―The Believer
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About the Author
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JOANNA WALSH is a British writer and illustrator. Her writing has appeared in Granta, Narrative, and
Guernica and has been anthologized in Dalkey's Best European Fiction 2015, Best British Short Stories 2014, and
elsewhere. A collection, Fractals, was published in the UK in 2013, and her nonfiction book Hotel was published
internationally in 2015. She writes literary and cultural criticism for The Guardian, The New Statesman, and The
National, is the fiction editor at 3:am Magazine, and created and runs the Twitter hashtag #readwomen, heralded by the
New York Times as "a rallying cry for equal for women writers."
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