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“This haunting, surreal story about surviving at all costs…[is a] rich exploration of identity and memory.”
— Washington Post
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“Jamye Méri Grant does wonderful work here. She has a lovely low alto, which I always think is the most adaptable pitch for many voices…The audiobook production offers a clever adaptation of the text…a gorgeous book.”
— Locus (audio review)
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“Brissett deftly handles the challenge of a multitude of characters all being the same people in a multitude of places that are the same place, while exploring complicated questions about identity.”
— Publishers Weekly
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“The novel’s unsettling and unusual structure works because Brissett skillfully seeds symbols and repeats elements to carry the reader through each version of the world. Just as the heroine/hero slowly comes to realize what is happening to the world, so, too, does the reader.”
— Library Journal
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“It’s really quite difficult for me to believe it’s a first novel, it’s so good: incredibly ambitious, beautifully written, moving, and with an extremely poignant ending, not to mention that remarkable, intricate balancing act with all your various hall-of-mirrors characters.”
— Elizabeth Hand, award-winning author
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“The style flows and draws you into the fiction and keeps you there—poetic in its imagery but simultaneously economical. It’s a science fiction, post-apocalyptic, tale, a love story, but not your dumb old man’s love story. A love story for a new age.”
— Jeffery Ford, author of Crackpot Palace
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“An audacious first novel that pushes against the limits of the form…Elysium is a book like no other.”
— James Patrick Kelly, author of Think like a Dinosaur