- David Santos Donaldson, author of Greenland

“Ebonya Lia’s debut novel is a riveting, mesmerizing tale of Harmony, a Black woman trapped in a body that violently reacts to almost every known irritant of our synthetic world, causing her to retreat to the relative safety of her Manhattan apartment. 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. With prose that cuts like a knife, this is a novel that will get under your skin—just as it should.”