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The Garden renders beautifully the uncanny, haunted space that pregnancy both occupies and creates. Beams’s glancing, needle-prick prose reminds me of Shirley Jackson’s work in its ability to conjure up women--their histories, their fears, the complexity of their desires, and their power. I loved this novel.
— Kelly Link, author of Get in Trouble
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THE GARDEN is a shimmering, sinister jewel of a novel, with an aching, Shirley Jackson like heart. Highly recommended!
— Dan Chaon, author of Sleepwalk
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Clare Beams is a master of fiction…Born in the literary legacy of Angela Carter and Stephen King, THE GARDEN is, like every child, utterly itself in the end—miraculous and beautiful and strange.
— Julia Phillips, author of Disappearing Earth
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Deliciously eerie and brilliantly written, Beams explores motherhood and gestation in a way that feels new and trailblazing, but that will also ring true to the lived experience of every woman who has ever been pregnant. A shimmering, strange, important novel— I couldn’t put it down.
— Rufi Thorpe, author of The Knockout Queen
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Clare Beams casts an intoxicating spell with The Garden, a gothic tale about nature’s dark whims and the unknowable chaos of matrescence. Prepare to be haunted.
— Rachel Yoder, author of Nightbitch
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The Garden is a novel to devour whole. It is a page-turner, a puzzle, an assembly of piercing insights into womanhood, ambition, and autonomy, in language as bewitching as it is exact.
— Megha Majumdar, author of A Burning
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THE GARDEN's gender politics, barbed wit, moral complexity, and genuine sense of unease recalls the best of Shirley Jackson's work…This swirling marvel of a novel cements Clare Beams as a read-everything-she-ever-writes writer.
— Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts
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Beams’ writing sets her apart, shimmering against the dark subject matter...Like an overgrown garden—untamable, lush, and wild in ways lovely and terrifying.
— Kirkus (Starred Review)
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Beams' second outing is a taut, tense, absorbing Gothic tale that deftly explores the complexity of women's inner lives.
— Booklist (Starred Review)
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