Praise for Two Girls, Fat and Thin

Chosen as one of the New York Times Book Review’s Notable Books of the Year

“An ingenious and disturbing psychodrama.”
—Interview

“Gaitskill’s unparalleled ability to render the real in all its textures and bring it sharply before all of a reader’s senses is complemented by her uncanny accuracy at recapturing both emotion and thought. . . . Two Girls displays her as a dismayingly strong writer.”
—The Boston Globe

“Thoughtful and eloquent. . . . Her fine and disturbing novel is also a stunning work of the imagination—genuine and luminous.”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Lyrical . . . harrowing, finely written . . . fresh . . . startling.”
—The Detroit News

“This is a wonderful and complex novel, at times even brilliant.”
—The Women’s Review of Books

“To read her is to be given many surprise gifts: an unexpected metaphor, an uncannily accurate skewering of humdrum Middle America.”
—The Philadelphia Inquirer

“[Gaitskill has] a fresh literary consciousness, a voice at once tender but unsentimental, lyrical and unfettered . . . . She is destined to become a major force.”
—San Jose Mercury News