"Meghan Lamb's debut novel is a marvel. It's an indelible portrait of a nearly forgotten place, full of stunted lives and desperate hopes, decaying homes and fading memories, ghostly presences brought vividly to life. It's a timely exploration of the failures that seep into our lives like slow leaks and the systems that intensify them. It's a haunted landscape made luminous by Lamb's exquisite prose."
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Jeff Jackson, author of
Destroy All Monsters
"
Failure to Thrive
captures slow collapse like nothing else I've read. It is packed with heartbreakingly acute observation, and yet it is uncrowded and spacious, with a gauzy, hallucinatory quality. Both expansive and economical, it does more with the form of the novel than most books will ever attempt. It's a gem glittering in the dark."
Lindsay Lerman, author of
I'm From Nowhere
"Meghan Lamb is such an exquisite, comprehensively intelligent, dreamy writer.
exudes utmost pleasure and a defying ache from every dot of its ink, like the sun."
Dennis Cooper, author of
The Marbled Swarm