A chorus of sparkling praise for Mary South

Mary South’s forthcoming debut story collection You Will Never be Forgotten (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, March 2020) has already earned tremendous early praise:

“While Mary South's stories feature the cutting-edge technology of our present and near future, what makes this collection so exceptional is the deft hand with which she can peel back the sheen of novelty to get to the core of these characters' triumphs and struggles. With sharp insight and wit, South lays bare the timeless truths of love, loss and loneliness at the heart of these stories.”

—Sara Nović, author of Girl at War

“One of the strangest and most exciting collections I've read in recent times. This is what I hope for from speculative fiction: an unease that pulls you through the story with urgency, but also delivers new formations of haunting questions that linger long after the story ends.”

          —Jac Jemc, author of The Grip of It

“What a heady, delicious, devastating collection. These stories, in their limitless wit and invention, begin as satisfying intellectual puzzles and then bloom into something fiercer, wilder—expanding to contain the fullness of dread, loss, longing, shame, terror. Mary South has written a tremendous book.”

—Clare Beams, author of The Illness Lesson

“Mary South's wickedly, exquisitely hilarious collection dwells in the intimate aches of modern life, writ large in strange, delightful stories that include, but are not limited to, clones, brain surgery, internet trolls, and warehouses full of spare men. Dazzlingly imagined and full of wit, You Will Never Be Forgotten is a gift to readers everywhere, a ferocious transmission from one of the most audacious, most original new voices in fiction.”

                                  —Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine

“This is a delicious, absurdly sharp collection of stories—funny, painful, macabre, sometimes gruesome, and humming with intelligence. Mary South is a tremendous talent and this book is a gem.”

                                      —Lydia Kiesling, author of The Golden State

For more on Mary South, her collection, and to preorder a copy, visit here.