"I was magnetized not just by a great story, but one that felt uncannily timely...Percy is forced to confront questions of identity and selfhood that feel both poignant and meta during a time of crisis." --Michael Baron, Literary Hub

"Stevens has combined the surreal with the actual to create a book painfully relevant to this new age of female testimony . . . A fantastic debut." --Noelle McManus, Women's Review of Books

"Stevens' debut is a compelling and visually rich novel that explores alienation in all its forms. The book's poetic language and realistically absurd characters will keep readers intrigued until the final page." --Leah von Essen, Booklist

"Finally a book that exposes how dull Occam's Razor has become after all these years. Adroitly crafted, The Exhibition of Persephone Q is a fun, urbane look at the faulty heuristics of perception and authenticity. Proof positive that in the age of Photoshop and Trumpian Denialism, the simplest explanation no longer applies." --Paul Beatty, author of The Sellout

"An intimate and obsessive exploration of the act of seeing and the act of being seen. It's also a metaphysical detective story, an investigation of absence and voids, and a darkly comedic treatise on the art world and living in a series of apartments and rooms in New York . . . The Exhibition of Persephone Q mostly reminded me of taking a walk at night alongside a brilliant companion who has a keen mind, and an eye for absurdity." --Patty Yumi Cottrell, The Believer

"Stevens's writing proves that both time and technology are best understood in retrospect, sequences made logical long after each moment has passed. The novel has a romantic slowness, unfurling gracefully, little by little, to show how quickly the present gives way to the future, or concedes to the past." --Haley Mlotek, New York Times

"The Exhibition of Persephone Q is a resonant and uncanny novel, a moving meditation on "how casually one version of reality detaches from the truth; it peels away naturally, like damp wallpaper in a neglected room." Jessi Jezewska Stevens is a promising, persuasive new writer, and I will be surprised if this doesn't turn out to be one of the strongest debut novels of 2020." --Justin Taylor, Bookforum

"The Exhibition of Persephone Q is comprised of the things our own stories are--the lives of so many others. And Percy--like all of us--navigates her own psyche as a balancing act, juggling her surroundings, her relationships and lovers, and the life growing inside of her." --Kristina Tate, BOMB

"An exploration of self, identity, and reality in the digital age." --The Millions (Most Anticipated, March 2020)

"The Exhibition of Persephone Q is an intimate, precise first novel, in turns funny and unsparing." --Alyssa Favreau, Hazlitt

"Set against post-9/11 madness, The Exhibition of Persephone Q is a tantalizing debut novel of the pleasant desire of losing and finding one's self in a strange, drifting world. The story teaches us that tragedy doesn't just give rise to depression, as Stevens tenderly demonstrates how disaster can also be a door: an excuse to exit or enter a life with or without warning." --Paris Close, Paperback Paris

"Jessi Jezewska Stevens's The Exhibition of Persephone Q is a captivating portrait of urban solitude, by turns strange, poignant, and poetic." --Chloe Aridjis, author of Sea Monsters

"The Exhibition of Persephone Q has the heart of a Hitchcock film. With a voice both riveting and wisely bizarre, Jessi Jezewska Stevens tells a timeless story of the battle to stop the present from turning into the past." --Catherine Lacey, author of Nobody Is Ever Missing

"The Exhibition of Persephone Q is a great millennial ghost story, in which a wry, wise, yet guileless heroine is haunted by all the other stories she could be living. Jessi Stevens is the Muriel Spark of 21st century New York." --Joshua Cohen, author of Book of Numbers

"With a voice both lucid and searching, Jessi Stevens depicts the great illogic of love, as well as all the small, strange quiddities of being a body in a material and virtual world. Lit up with melancholy, humor, and perfect oddness, this remarkable debut casts an afterglow long after its final pages." --Hermione Hoby, author of Neon in Daylight

"Brimming with wit, intricately and playfully observed, The Exhibition of Persephone Q is a marvel, a treat, a mystery rooted in the unquestioned and unquestionable substance of identity. Stevens announces herself as a bold, surprising, and utterly compelling voice, with a slant on the world that is entirely her own." --Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body like Mine

"Stevens's striking, unique debut explores the increasing alienation a young woman feels as eerie phenomena creep into her life . . . Stevens is a talented writer, and her debut is a propulsive experience." --Publishers Weekly

"Stevens' debut is a compelling and visually rich novel that explores alienation in all its forms. The book's poetic language and realistically absurd characters will keep readers intrigued until the final page." --Leah von Essen, Booklist

"Stevens' dreamlike first novel is a delicate and drifting exploration of Percy's relationships with friends, lovers, neighbors, and the many not-quite strangers who form the fabric of city life. As Percy wanders, New York itself is reflected through the prism of her many identities . . . in luminous prose that captures the essence of a place in the middle of its most defining transformation. A stellar debut." --Kirkus Reviews (starred)