RaveThe Austin ReviewIt weaves a wonderful fabric of fantastic and relatable elements—ranging from light-hearted to horrific—that keeps the reader engaged and waiting for the next sentence. Davis’s writing style is crisp and pointed; her sentences are precise and flow from one image to the next. Her textured writing helps ground the reader in the complicated world of \'stretchable\' properties and complex relationships presented in the novel ... It uses the past and the future to bring clarity to the present plot, and it uses the juxtaposition between realism and magical realism—between fantastic mythology and modern reality that harkens back to the suburbs of John Cheever—to give readers a sense of nostalgia while also instilling a sense of unease about the forces they may have missed in their own lives ... The heavy use of magical realism takes a little while to settle into—longer than the suspension of reality fully permeates the text ... Duplex shows the reader that when looking at life, sometimes all that really matters is the perspective.
