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"Grief is a whirlpool drawing matter and debris unto itself: behold the wreckage." In today's feature from 2012, Lee Thomas reviews Amelia Gray’s debut novel, THREATS (@FSGOriginals). https://t.co/jY2LiBzVsw
"Amelia Gray is a sharpshooter, precise and deadly. THREATS lures the reader with its poetic sensibilities and then subverts every expectation. Before long, there will be statues of Gray in various corners of the literary world." --Emma Straub, author of Other People We Married
"Reading Amelia Gray is like a pyramid of rocks being built on a cloud. That's to say, it's something fantastical, dreamlike, playful, and very dangerous. You will be amazed at what this writer can do." --Shane Jones, author of Light Boxes
"The first time I encountered Amelia Gray's fiction, it slugged me in the jaw. The second time too, and the third. Said jaw-slugging has ensued nearly every time I've read something of hers, except for when instead it whispered sad and surprising but undeniable truths about the difficulty of intimacy and sense in the wretched blastoscape of modern life. And then it made me a grilled cheese sandwich to prove that the world can be a kind place, and it waited until I had sated myself and wiped away the crumbs before slugging me in the jaw again." --Doug Dorst, author of The Surf Guru and Alive in Necropolis