'A magnificent debut. In these carefully crafted stories, lonely people come face to face with the strange or the unsettling, leading to messy, horny, funny and ultimately profound complications. Doyle is a rising star' - Laila Lalami, Pulitzer-Prize finalist and author of The Dream Hotel

'Doyle's dark, dazzling humor offsets the absurdity of life... Doyle's writing, elegant and mesmerizing, results in a curious, alluring combination of high drama and supernatural mystery' - Shelf Awareness

'Each story feels like an entire cinematic universe' - Debutiful

'An electrifying debut that thrums with dark humor, desire and the uncanny ache of being alive... Inviting us to experience the body - its hungers, its betrayals, its beauty - in all its unruly splendor' - Alex Espinoza, author of The Sons of El Rey

'Stunning - wonderfully dry yet musical, with potent characterizations and sad humor' - Charmaine Craig, author of Miss Burma

'Strange, beautiful and deftly written. Here are women suffocating in their passivity, teetering between the lives that had been forced upon them and the lives they've yet to choose. Doyle is a writer to watch' - Rita Chang-Eppig, author of Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea

'Open-heartedly honest, fiercely intelligent and wonderfully fresh' - Jessie Ren Marshall, author of Women! In! Peril!