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Cleaner (2023)Brandi Wells"What a total delight it is to roam this (almost) empty building with Brandi Wells' cleaner who is always peering (and neatening) the surfaces of people's lives and finding so much depth in there to mess with - Here's a new and key addition to office fiction and a thrilling debut novel by a propulsive voice." If I Survive You (2022)Jonathan Escoffery"Each story in If I Survive You passes a baton to the next, though it's not for speed but for deepening. As Jonathan Escoffery's debut progresses, the characters layer, stories overlap, voices gather and the result is a moving and layered portrait of a family, at once wise and unflinching." Diary of a Void (2022)Emi Yagi"I found myself completely captivated by this novel's unusual and inviting premise and all that it questions and stirs up. So much teems beneath the surface here!" I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness (2021)Claire Vaye Watkins"This book is stupendously good. It practically vibrates in its ferocious frankness, and is so funny too that one can’t help but fall for this voice, even in the pain, because of the pain, with the pain. A marvel." Appleseed (2021)Matt Bell"There’s a particular thrill reading a book that has such certainty of vision, one that guides every page and allows us to truly picture the connections between our past and our future. We see the naturalist’s mind placed in the realm of the imagination as a way to try to grasp what’s happening to our planet right now. It’s a beautiful tribute to what fiction can do, and these characters and their visceral struggles will remain with me for a long time." Gold Diggers (2021)Sanjena Sathian"What a dynamic and exciting debut! Sathian builds such an inviting world of layers and times, all knit together by voice, vibrant imagery and palpable groundedness. A total delight." Likes (2020)Sarah Shun-lien Bynum"Oh, what a treasure trove of delights this is! The most succulent details are tucked inside the warmth of these characters’ voices, and it is Bynum’s governing and generous intelligence that gives shape to their stories, always holding close and with care our complex yearnings and desires." Open Me (2018)Lisa Locascio"Through the care of her tremendous observations and the beauty of her prose, Lisa Locascio writes a kind of love letter to the female body and all its power and visceral complexity. This is a story of many important layers, but one of the many reasons it remains distinct in my mind is because of its honesty about our complicated, yearning physical selves. A remarkable, fearless debut." History of Wolves (2017)Emily Fridlund"So delicately calibrated and precisely beautiful that one might not immediately sense the sledgehammer of pain building inside this book. And I mean that in the best way. What powerful tension and depth." Carter Beats the Devil (2001)Glen David Gold"Settle into your chair, get comfortable and prepare for an absolutely marvelous journey into magic and illusion. You hold in your hands the thick velvet curtains and the stage is waiting: open up! What a lucky reader you are, with all of Gold's world of wonder waiting right here in your fingertips . . ." More recommendations Anthologies containing stories by Aimee Bender
Watchlist (2015)32 Stories by Persons of Interestedited by
Bryan Hurt
Choose Wisely (2015)35 Women Up To No Goodedited by
Joanne Merriam and H L Nelson
Lit Riffs (2007)Writers 'Cover' Songs They Loveedited by
Matthew Miele
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