Marilou is Everywhere

‘Remarkable. Fiction debuts this accomplished don’t come along very often … Smith is a writer of immense talent and rare imagination [and] this novel reads like a miracle’ * NPR *Strange and powerful … It’s a book brimming with longing, with heartbreak. It’s a coming-of-age by coming into somebody else * The New York Times *Audacious… Smith’s beautiful, poetic prose transforms this strange coming-of-age story into something wondrous * Daily Express, Best New Paperbacks of Summer 2020 *Rich and vivid, [a] hauntingly gorgeous debut novel… Smith captures this unstable world with matter-of-fact poetry, spare and sensual and surprisingly funny * Kirkus (STARRED REVIEW) *One of the most unforgettable books I’ve read this year, offering a uniquely haunting, but also disarmingly funny and lyrical look at loss, love and the desire to be seen * NYLON *

This is a mysterious and strangely exciting debut. Smith is a poet, and writes in sensory driven, soul-tapping prose.

Sarah Elaine Smith holds MFAs in fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and poetry from the Michener Center for Writers. She is also a recipient of a Rona Jaffe Wallace Fellowship and a teaching-writing fellowship, in addition to the Keene Prize for Literature, the Roy Crane Prize, the Richard Yates Prize for Short Fiction and the Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s First Book Prize. Her work has appeared in Tin House, FENCE, Best New Poets and others, and she is the author of one poetry collection, I Live in a Hut. She lives in Pittsburgh.

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