Heady, harrowing and darkly funny ... There is an appropriately claustrophobic quality to Nerve Damage ... And Stinson’s chameleon-like ability to shift without warning between quippy text-speak and breathtaking, lyrical passages heightens the book’s overall jitteriness ... Beneath the novel’s acerbic, madcap humor is a sobering narrative about the emotional cost of surviving abuse.
A sharply-written character study ... Starts out sprinting, overflowing with humor and paranoia ... The prose is clever ... Stinson’s debut is a darkly funny exploration of a traumatized mind and the arduous path toward healing ... May offer readers new neural pathways, which is all that a great work of fiction can ask to do.
