One of the best collections I’ve ever read. Every single story is a standout. –Roxane Gay Fuses science, myth, and imagination into a dark and gorgeous series of questions about our current predicaments. –Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See Truly original … delightfully unexpected. -The New York Times Book Review
One of the best collections I’ve ever read. Every single story is a standout. -Roxane Gay
WINNER OF THE CHAUTAUQUA PRIZE . LONGLISTED FOR THE STORY PRIZE . NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR . Refinery29 . BookRiot
Fuses science, myth, and imagination into a dark and gorgeous series of questions about our current predicaments. –Anthony Doerr, author ofAll the Light We Cannot See
A dystopian tale about genetically modified septuplets who are struck by a mysterious illness; a love story about a man bewitched by a mermaid; a stirring imagining of the lives of Nigerian schoolgirls in the aftermath of a Boko Haram kidnapping. The stories inAll the Names They Used for Godbreak down genre barriers-from science fiction to American Gothic to magical realism to horror-and are united by each character’s brutal struggle with fate. Like many of us, the characters in this collection are in pursuit of the sublime. Along the way, they must navigate the borderland between salvation and destruction.
NAMED A MUST-READ BOOK BYHarper’s Bazaar.Entertainment Weekly.AM New York . Reading WomenAND A TOP READ BYElle.Fast Company.The Christian Science Monitor . Bustle .Shondaland . Popsugar .Refinery29 .Bookish.Newsday.The Millions.Asian American Writers’ Workshop.HelloGiggles
Strange and wonderful … delightfully unexpected. -The New York Times Book Review
Completing one story is like having lived an entire life, and then being born, breathless, into another. -Carmen Maria Machado
Captivating. -NPR
Gripping. -Los Angeles Review of Books
A remarkable debut … Sachdeva is seemingly fearless and her talent limitless. -AM New York
This phenomenal debut short-story collection is filled with stories that bring the otherworldly to life and examine the strangeness of humanity. -Bustle
So rich they read like dreams … They are enormous stories, not in length but in ambition, each an entirely new, unsparing world. Beautiful, draining-and entirely unforgettable. -Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
