Nymph

Reviews / Votes

A visceral, exorcism-like exploration of a body blunted to pain and a mind moulded by generational trauma, lust, and dysfunction ... sensual, slippery and stylish. -- Ana Cafolla * The Face * A sharp critical vision lurches into focus: of culture as commodity, of suffering as currency, and of the female body as this agon's generalized battleground. -- Tom McCarthy I haven't read a book in a while that just pulled me in, and you're so immersed in the characters and in the world. It's quite a slice of life -- Kaia Gerber * Vanity Fair * La Femme Nikita meets Bridges of Madison County -- Marlowe Granados Reading her, I never know what to expect. She investigates unique undergrounds, interested in what is never obvious. She takes chances, risks, and never chooses the safe way. -- Lynne Tillman, author of <i>Thrilled to Death</i> Reading Nymph feels like being gifted with an elegant, hypnotic glimpse into a disorienting mirror world where all is possible and all is connected. A taut exploration of fate, inevitability, violence, and the beautiful impossibility of extricating ourselves from those intimacies, and those darknesses, which can seem ordained -- Sophie Mackintosh, author of <i>The Water Cure</i> Here is a novel that seems to shrug off the pain of being young and adrift in the world, while secretly, it draws you into the dark recesses of loneliness and disillusionment. I fear her book will destroy you. -- Merve Emre, author of <i>Paraliterary</i> Understated and elegant, LaCava's writing inspires both dread and longing; her characters, nearly all of them direct to the point of cruelty -- Corinne Segal, <i>Lit Hub</i>