PositiveNylonThis searing, powerful novel is a stunning debut by Tope Folarin, offering a look into the disorienting life of a first-generation Nigerian-American ... Folarin has written a compelling, lyrical story about alienation and identity, the kind that sticks inside you long after you\'ve finished reading.
Young-Ha Kim Trans. by Krys Lee
RaveNylon... filled with the kind of sublime, galvanizing stories that strike like a lightning bolt, searing your nerves ... It\'s easy enough to see why Kim has won every Korean literature award and is acclaimed as the best writer of his generation; pick up this book and find out for yourself.
Mark Doten
PositiveNylon[A] subversive, searing indictment of our political era ... what Doten uncovers with this novel is the always pulsating anxieties that fuel our current existence, both online and off, and the ways in which we use irreverence and cynicism as armor against what we know is largely an uncaring world.
Dan Callahan
RaveNylonThat Was Something relays that intensity, that specific urgency, of being young and in love and in lust, manipulating the boundaries of your own identity, figuring out what it means to be free ... writing well about periods of youthful indulgence and the kind of madcap romances that involve wild nights of running down city streets in the rain is hard, but you wouldn’t know that from reading Callahan, who relays this story of young love lost with a stripped-down style and a dry, sometimes biting humor that he wields to great, alternately devastating and uplifting, effect ... It’s this echo, this emotional rattling around, that Callahan captures perhaps better than anyone else I’ve read; That Was Something isn’t in itself nostalgic, but rather wrestles with the idea of nostalgia’s worth, and offers readers an understanding of why it’s an important thing with which to reckon.
Emma Glass
RaveNylonPeach, the debut novel from Emma Glass, is written in this language. The words spin out from the page, into and around your head; they have accepted definitions, but they take on new meanings the more you see of them, in the same way that any word starts to feel strange in your mouth if you say it again and again ... Glass’ cunning use of language, reminiscent of the great 20th-century modernists like Gertrude Stein and James Joyce, and her employment of alliteration and repetition, evoke vague feelings of madness while you’re reading... But whereas many accounts of sexual assault — fictional and non — are related in a realistic way, Glass’ formal experimentation serves the purpose of bringing the reader even closer to the trauma. In a sense, this is surprising; it feels dichotomous, as if the strange beauty of the language should offer distance from the familiar horrors on the page ... What Glass has done with Peach is offer a look into one woman’s world, as she tries to figure it all out.
