— David Santos Donaldson, author of Greenland, finalist for the 2023 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction

“In the vein of Moshfegh’s MY YEAR OF REST AND RELAXATION, Lia takes the metaphor of bodily illness to Kafkaesque extremes. Not since the works of Gayl Jones has the impact of institutional racism on the body of a contemporary Black woman been expressed so viscerally.”