A mysterious realm on the other side of our screens. A dark force that draws victims into its static. The unlikely hero called to save them and herself from this electric hell.
No synopsis can possibly convey the weird, full-hearted wonder of Jane Schoenbrun’s electrifying first novel ... Schoenbrun has written a doozy of a debut that reimagines the Orpheus myth for our hypermediated age. A purveyor of cinematic opacities, Schoenbrun is far more accessible here, though they haven’t abandoned their propensity for the uncanny ... An entire generation may have found a receiver in this revelation of a book.
Filmmaker Schoenbrun makes their print debut with one of the best novels of the year, a love letter to the history of television, which also depends on that adoration for its existentially terrifying, David Lynchian horror ... This is a novel that will suck readers in.
Schoenbrun...brings their signature preoccupations to fiction with stunning ambition ... Dazzling and politically acute, Schoenbrun’s debut announces a major literary voice.
