Media Reviews

"Starred Review. Yes! A diversion and a pleasure, this novel leaves you feeling smarter and hipper than you were before." - Kirkus

"Ives's prose and storytelling feel deliberately obtuse at times, requiring readers to slow down to fully immerse themselves in the narrative's nuances, but the result is an odd and thoroughly satisfying novel." - Publishers Weekly

"I first knew Lucy Ives's work as a poet, and to have her prose is a gift, too. The detailed novel she's built with such authenticity, wit, and feeling is remarkable for its vitality, insights, and lyrical view of a changing world." - Hilton Als, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of White Girls

"This book was written by a rampaging, mirthful genius. It stands before me like a runestone, magical, mysterious - an esoteric juggernaut masquerading as a 'debut novel.' During the days I spent reading it, I said goodbye to all else." - Elizabeth McKenzie, author of The Portable Veblen

"There are abundant pleasures to be found in Lucy Ives's debut novel about art curation, corporate control, and utopia (among many other subjects and digressions), but the best is the poetic, elegant intelligence of its narration, vocalized by Stella Krakus, whose every sentence wryly climbs from the ridiculous to the sublime." - Teddy Wayne, author of Loner and The Love Song of Jonny Valentine

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Lucy Ives

Lucy Ives was born in New York City and received a B.A. from Harvard University, an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and a Ph.D. in comparative literature from New York University. She is the author of Amamnesis, Nineties, Orange Roses, The Worldkillers, The Hermit, and Impossible Views of the World. For five years an editor of Triple Canopy, Ives continues to live in New York and currently teaches at the Pratt Institute.

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