The Orange Eats Creeps

Product Description

*National Book Foundation ‘5 Under 35’ Award*NPR Best Books of 2010*The Believer Book Award Finalist*Indie Bookseller’s Choice Awards Finalist
“The book feels written in a fever; it is breathless, scary, and like nothing I’ve ever read before. Krilanovich’s work will make you believe that new ways of storytelling are still emerging from the margins.”―NPR
A girl with drug-induced ESP and an eerie connection to Patty Reed (a young member of the Donner Party who credited her survival to her relationship with a hidden wooden doll), searches for her disappeared foster sister along “The Highway That Eats People,” stalked by a conflation of Twin Peaks’ “Bob” and the Green River Killer, known as Dactyl.

Review

“One of 2010’s small-press triumphs.”―The Week
“Grace Krilanovich’s first book is a steamy cesspool of language that stews psychoneurosis and viscera into a horrific new organism―the sort of muck in which Burroughs, Bataille, and Kathy Acker loved to writhe.”―The Believer
“This is the number one book I have purchased for friends and family, have recommended, have quoted, have furiously dog-eared, underlined, and marked up. This is a book with a heart that pulses, and while you’re not going to get a sense of arc or resolution, that’s the point―that’s the horror. Krilanovich leaves you stranded in a ghostly ocean of beautiful, yet alienating, lyrical syntax.”―Kia Groom, Quaint Magazine
“The book feels written in a fever; it is breathless, scary, and like nothing I’ve ever read before. Krilanovich’s work will make you believe that new ways of storytelling are still emerging from the margins.”―NPR
“Rimbaud, Huysmans, Kiernan―they’re all in there, along with a very dark and satisfyingly malevolent sense of humor… The real and the phantasmagorical combine in a chemical reaction.”―Omnivoracious
“A relentless existential nightmare as baffling as it is brilliant. Krilanovich dispenses with so many writing norms that the reader is required to figure out a new way to read. It’s a thrilling ride.”―Shelf Unbound Magazine
“This one is a must read.”―Black Book
“In [Krilanovich’s] impressively weird surreal-horror novel The Orange Eats Creeps, ‘vampire hobo junkies’ rampage around Portland and its burbs. Think Twilight on the urban growth boundary―except actually interesting.”―Portland Monthly Magazine
“One of the more interesting literary experiences in recent times. The Orange Eats Creeps is sure to make an impression.”―The Cult
“Potent and entirely original.”―Powell’s Review-a-Day
“I know this will be a book I read again and again over the years; it will not be artifice on my shelf, it will be a space.”―Blake Butler, The Nervous Breakdown
“The Orange Eats Creeps contains the hallucinatory, disjointed, plotless, yet bizarrely charming ravings of a young refugee from foster care who now belongs to a pack of teenage hobo vampires that rove convenience stores and supermarkets high on Robitussin and mop buckets of coffee. These feral, trashed-out bloodsuckers have nothing to do with the Twilight crowd, devoid as they are of sex appeal or commercial potential.”―Newsday
“This novel is like notorious punk-rocker GG Allin showing up at a Green Day concert. Krilanovich build[s] characters that most other first-time novelists wouldn’t dare attempt, and she writes it all in unrestrained profane language that you wouldn’t expect from someone garnering serious mainstream praise. [The Orange Eats Creeps is a] nervy novel. This is fiction defined by its distaste for moderation.”―The Dominion
“Forget about trite vampire books. In Grace Krilanovich’s bold debut novel, The Orange Eats Creeps, her undead protagonists are “immoral shithead” junkies, thirsty for blood and cough syrup.”―Nylon
“Beautiful and deranged. [Krilanovich] nails the shaky worldview of a supernatural teen narco-insomniac… Being undead, here, is the defining paradox of the teenage female experience: to be both immortal and rapidly aging.”―Bookforum
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