Man v. Nature: Stories Audiobook

Quotes

• “This week, I have been reading the most astonishing book, Man v. Nature by Diane Cook. The stories are surreal, with the sharpest edge and in one way or another, each story reveals something raw and powerful about being human in a world where so little is in our control.”

  — Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author

• “Man v. Nature is as close to experiencing a Picasso as literature can get: the worlds in Diane Cook’s impressive debut are bizarre, vertiginous, funny, pushed to the extreme—but just familiar enough in their nuances of the human condition to evoke an irresistible, around-the-corner reality.”

  — Téa Obreht, New York Times bestselling author

• “Here’s a good rule: if Diane Cook wrote it, read it…Safety is tenuous, if not an illusion, in her thoughtful, unsettling, and darkly funny collection.”

  — Boston Globe

• “Quirkiness abounds, with several fairy-tale tropes thrown in for good measure…Some stories jump off the page…all are oddly charming.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “Potent and unnerving…Cook writes assuredly of archetypal terror and even more insightfully of hunger—for food, friendship, love, and, above all, survival. A canny, refined, and reverberating debut.”

  — Booklist

• “Cook’s sharply honed prose packs an intellectual yet disturbing wallop.”

  — Kirkus Reviews