The Girl in the Road

The Girl in the RoadBy: Monica Byrne A debut that Neil Gaiman calls Glorious. . . . So sharp, so focused and so human. The Girl in the Road describes a future that is culturally lush and emotionally wrenching. Monica Byrne bursts on to the literary scene with an extraordinary vision of the future. In a world where global power has shifted east and revolution is brewing, two women embark on vastly different journeyseach harrowing and urgent and wholly unexpected. When

The exercises in the book increase in difficulty

because he knew all sorts of interesting things

Help him roll the dough

and a fearfully incompetent shrink--The Beautiful Room is Empty conflates the acts of coming out and coming of age

- Homemade Kaleidoscope

and one wicked stepsister’s journey to become the heroine of her own quest

both at the table and when they shop for clothes a few sizes smaller

- Tyrannosaurus rex

you can stick piglets into the pigsty

Under the guise of opportunity and freedom

there is fear

“Disorienting and reorienting the reader to devastating effect