fits in most pockets, so you can bring it pretty much everywhere, which I plan on doing and highly recommend (PUBLISHERS WEEKLY "BEST SUMMER READS"); warped from one world to another (THE NATION); a feverish and explicit set of images and ideas revolving around power, fe**sh, p**n, media, violence, translation, punishment, performance, and aesthetics (VICE); scary, sexual, and intellectually disar
ming (HUFFINGTON POST); horrifying and humbling (THE RUMPUS); the opposite of boring…. an ominous conflagration devouring the bland terrain of conventional realism (BOOKSLUT); both devastating and uncomfortably enjoyable (AMERICAN BOOK REVIEW); unrelenting, grotesque beauty (PUBLISHERS WEEKLY); wholly new (IOWA REVIEW); creating a zone where elegance and grace can gambol with the just-plain-f**ked-up (HTML GIANT); consistently inventive (TRIQUARTERLY); playful, experimental appeal (PUBLISHERS WEEKLY); language dissolves into stream-of-consanguinity post-surrealism and then resolves into a plot again (HARRIET); a peculiar, personal music that is at once apart from and very much surrounded by the world (VERSE); a world of wounded voices (HYPERALLERGIC); dangerous language, a murderous kind…. discomfiting, filthy, hilarious, and ecstatic (BOOKSLUT); futile, sad, and beautiful (NEWPAGES); a kind of nut job’s notebook (PUBLISHERS WEEKLY); melding and resisting traditional conventions of genre (HTML GIANT); refreshingly eccentric (THE REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY FICTION); thought-provoking, inspired and unexpected. Highly recommended (AFTER ELLEN)
