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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”)
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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Wild and wonderful, packed with mythical transformations that take place in the most ordinary of contemporary settings…Marvelous.
— Daily Mail
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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
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Exceptional...Hugely enjoyable...Absolutely beautifully written...So subtle, intelligent and imaginative.
— The Scotsman
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Thrilling...A writer whose next move you wouldn’t want to miss.
— Observer
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Eerie, otherworldly…For fans of Carmen Maria Machado.
— Elle (UK)
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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
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salt slow is exemplary. A distinct new gothic, melancholy, powerful, and poised.
— China Miéville, author of The City & The City
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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
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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
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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
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Unafraid to venture beyond realism’s limits…Armfield is a significant, exciting talent.
— Sam Byers, author of Perfidious Albion