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PRAISE
This novel you are holding is a saucy, heartrending campus romp, full of sex and death, and Nabokovian nods galore. Russell hits all the emotional registers, and provides a moving portrait of an artist, or just a plain old person, struggling to balance it all—inner life and outer life, children, grief, and love." —Heidi Julavits, author of The Vanishers
"Josh Russell is a maniac. Only he would think to combine a modern-day women's captivity narrative with a hilariously cruel academic satire, and sprinkle in a biting exploration of identity politics. Only he would combine them and only he would do it so well. Hannah Guttentag, his protagonist, is a sparkling creation and the story of her 'captivity' is full of cold, dark tribulations, but also, glory be, with sunshine. This book is an ass-kicker so please form an orderly line and you will all get your ass kicked." —Victor LaValle, author of Big Machine & The Devil in Silver
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Josh Russell's King of the Animals (LSU Press) was longlisted for the Story Prize 2021. You can find his essays and stories in Epoch, One Story, Seneca Review, Subtropics, DIAGRAM, and New World Writing. He's also published three novels: Yellow Jack (W.W. Norton), My Bright Midnight (LSU Press), and A True History of the Captivation, Transport to Strange Lands, and Deliverance of Hannah Guttentag (Dzanc Books).
