RaveHarvard ReviewAlthough its cover assures us it’s something decidedly normal and comprehensible—a \'novel\'—Claire-Louise Bennett’s Checkout 19 eludes definition. Wild, refreshing, and delightful, this much-anticipated collection of vignettes is the disorienting but worthy successor to Bennett’s stunning debut and surprise hit Pond ... Reading Checkout 19 feels not so much like listening to someone recollect stories from her life as watching her reminisce from within her own brain ... Bennett’s greatest talent is her precise prose ... Checkout 19 is more audacious, and for that reason less relatable, than the already delightfully obsessive and inward-looking Pond. As with her first book, Bennett captures with astonishing clarity the beautiful, Woolfian minutiae of subjectivity that so often escape notice, and which were such a delight to behold in Bennett’s first novel. But if Pond seemed prone to navel-gazing, Checkout 19 whisks the bewildered reader into the narrator’s flights of imaginative fancy without apology ... Extraordinary.