Mountains of the Moon: A Novel Audiobook

Quotes

• “Merciless and penetrating…a difficult and disturbing novel, a wormy nightmare pitched between hard covers. If there are Stieg Larsson-like moments, they emerge from a prose style that owes more to William Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy. Ms. Kay’s utterances here are colloquial, bumpy, bordering on stream-of-consciousness. They often seem to be scratched onto a can with a rusty nail…An unsentimental yet intensely moving portrait.”

  — New York Times

• “Like William Faulkner’s famously demanding novels…multiple readings would be needed to pick up on everything Ms. Kay is doing, but even on my first time through, Mountains of the Moon was one of the most challenging and impressive novels I’ve read all year.”

  — Wall Street Journal

• “Compulsively readable…It’s the inimitable voice that Kay has worked out that makes Louise’s journey unforgettable, checkered with personal touches and a timbre of defiantly playful happiness that belies the deep sadness of her circumstances and the hard-boiled content of her flight from disaster to freedom. The novel’s impressive air of feminist noir and hard-knock psychological realism are merely molehills that the unusual (and personal) prose promotes to the scale of mountains.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “An extraordinary debut…This is a novel about one woman’s struggle for existence, both physical and psychological, and in spite of the desperate subject matter it is above all a triumphant, uplifting expression of an individual’s capacity to transcend the brutality and ugliness of everyday life and create something unique and magnificent…There’s a sense of having experienced something genuinely unforgettable…A bold, unsettling, uplifting novel. Read it. Then read it again.”

  — Gaurdian (London)

• “An extraordinary and quite brilliant first novel…The writing is wonderfully inventive, encompassing grim reality and wild, romantic fantasy, and the true magic lies in the way the author manages to present the fragments as a funny, charming, beautiful whole.”

  — Times (London)

• “Imaginative, playful and fresh…Because of the book’s theme of overcoming a tragic past, it may appeal to fans of Stieg Larsson. It will also be of interest to those who enjoy experimental fiction, unique voices and prose that intertwines with a story’s landscape.”

  — Huffington Post

• “A striking debut. Imagination can blossom in the grimmest environment is one lesson of Kay’s appealing, often painful first novel, which captures the creative language and irrepressible spirit of Lulu King…A wild, sometimes disorienting but impressively crafted novel.”

  — Kirkus Reviews