Temporary

A brisk, wildly imaginative first novel. you can hear an old note in American fiction. [the] violent, surreal, often cartoonish scenarios delivered deadpan that draw attention to the freakishness of ordinary life - from writers like Donald Barthelme, Gordon Lish, Ben Marcus. Crisp, swift and sardonic, Temporary reads like a comic and mournful Alice in Wonderland set in the gig economy, an eerily precise portrait of ourselves in a cracked mirror. New York Times