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Goddess Complex (2025)
Sanjena Sathian
"Buckle up, readers: Goddess Complex, an heir to the best of Kafka or Roth in both its savage comic brilliance and its depth of meaning, is the wildest of rides. I can't remember the last time I read a book that was simultaneously so serious in its ambition - this is a novel, ultimately, about female power and agency - and such a perfectly plotted page-turner. I could not put it down."
Save Me, Stranger (2025)
Erika Krouse
"The protagonists at the heart of this collection seem to hang, fingers clinging, on a high precipice, while the reader stands above in judgment and care, both at once. In our lonesome, suspicious times, Save Me, Stranger made me feel that there's hope yet for our wretched souls. I'll be thinking about these stories for a long time."
Rejection (2024)
Tony Tulathimutte
"I could compare Rejection to the work of Nabokov, in its stylish and blazingly original skewering of convention; or to that of Roth, in the daring with which it plumbs the darkest depths of the human psyche to excavate what is most vulnerable about us; or to the worst (by which I mean best) Am I the Asshole post you've ever read on Reddit, in its commitment to embodying its characters at their neediest and most candid and therefore most delectable. But to do so would be to sell it short. I finished Rejection breathless with admiration. It is - Tulathimutte is - that rare thing in American literature: truly original."
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