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• Surreal, muscular stories…Fusing genres with supernatural grace, Armfield takes the discourse about inhabiting a female body to spooky, surprising places.

  — Esquire (“Most Anticipated Books of Fall”)

• Unsettling, uncanny, and utterly delightful… Armfield occasionally deploys startling, stunning turns of phrase…Razor-sharp, stylish, and imaginative, Armfield’s collection is a dazzling introduction to a talented writer.

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• Dazzling…Each piece is filled with magic, insight, and a rare level of creativity that mark Armfield as a fresh new voice of magical realism. Artistic and perceptive, Armfield’s debut explores the ebbs and flows of human connection in lives touched by the bizarre.

  — Kirkus

• Provocative and thrilling…Armfield’s collection is exemplary as she pushes the limits of reality into beautifully eerie and unsettling worlds. She blends elements of horror, science fiction, mythology, and feminism in a way that is sure to shock and amaze readers of short fiction.

  — Booklist

• A darkly exciting debut…Wickedly clever prose and a sense of humor that seems to loom up like a character itself, having been lying in wait in a corner all along.

  — The Guardian

• Wild and wonderful, packed with mythical transformations that take place in the most ordinary of contemporary settings…Marvelous.

  — Daily Mail

• Read just one tale from this disturbing collection and you’ll find yourself clamped between the collection’s jaws. Because, visceral, perturbing and exhilarating, these stories are something really special.

  — Stylist

• Exceptional...Hugely enjoyable...Absolutely beautifully written...So subtle, intelligent and imaginative.

  — The Scotsman

• Thrilling...A writer whose next move you wouldn’t want to miss.

  — Observer

• Eerie, otherworldly…For fans of Carmen Maria Machado.

  — Elle (UK)

• Reading this collection is the only thing you need to do right now. Armfield is an enormous, gut-wrenching talent.

  — Daisy Johnson, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Everything Under

• salt slow is exemplary. A distinct new gothic, melancholy, powerful, and poised.

  — China Miéville, author of The City & The City

• These are brilliantly addictive, barbed, illusive stories. Armfield creates a cleverly unsettling, iridescent world that we are all the better for entering.

  — Irenosen Okojie, author of Speak Gigantular

• Visceral, fierce and beautifully unsettling, Armfield’s writing has an astonishing power. This collection haunted me with its brilliance.

  — Elizabeth Macneal, author of The Doll Factory

• Armfield’s work has a timelessness to it, and a generosity of emotion that’s brave and affecting.

  — Chloe Aridjis, author of Book of Clouds

• Unafraid to venture beyond realism’s limits…Armfield is a significant, exciting talent.

  — Sam Byers, author of Perfidious Albion