One of the most visceral, profane, and distinctive reading experiences of the 21st century,
The Orange Eats Creeps
was praised as "beautiful and deranged" by
Bookforum
, while Shelley Jackson said it is "like something you read on the underside of a freeway overpass in a fever dream. Visionary, pervy, unhinged. It will mess you up."
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.
Named a best book of the year by NPR and a finalist for
The Believer
Book Award,
also earned Krilanovich a "5 Under 35" distinction from the National Book Foundation.