Chicken Wing Gingerbread Man

"The story begins in the wake of a crime."

Reviewed at Identity Theory.

"There's a Kafkaesque layer of weirdness smeared across everything…"

Reviewed at The Collagist.

"Monika Fagerholm creates a dark, dramatic, and lyrical world, often insular, full of change and loss.... I fell in love with this world and these books; they are, for me, a fresh reminder of what story itself is about."

Reviewed at The Collagist.

"Joshua Mohr’s debut novel...is where Michael Gondry would go if he went down a few too many miles of bad desert road."

Reviewed at The Collagist.

"Fill your book with blatant, modern-day classic, critical thematic concerns and a reviewer ought to have no problem calling them out in an easily digested bullet-point format.... Except, this book hurt. And trying to find a way to talk about that without merely repeating over and over again that this book hurt presents a far greater challenge."

Reviewed at The Collagist.

"Let me be completely transparent: with Lethem’s work, I approach it with expectations. I expect spice. In this case, I found the book flavorless and cold."

Reviewed at Identity Theory.

"Consider the f-bomb: you can trace the trajectory of the story’s heart by the elegant deployment of that dexterous cuss word across the pages of...Laird Hunt’s latest (arguably best, unarguably most emotionally engaging) novel."

Reviewed at Identity Theory.

This review includes footnotes.

Reviewed at The Quarterly Conversation. (The link will take you to Wayback Machine archival snapshot.)

"It is a slippery novel. It will never lay still and compromising in your hands, but the harder you hold on to it, the harder it is to hold. In confounding, it rewards: to borrow a line from the book, 'It’s only a problem if you make it one.'"

Reviewed at The Collagist.