Praise for Night Soil

 

 

“You’d think it has been done before but it really hasn’t—the perfectly crafted, haunting and heartbreaking, raw, funny, unblinking yet merciful art novel.”

—Marlon James, author of Man Booker Prize-winning A Brief History of Seven Killings

 

“Dale Peck’s Night Soil, a portrait of the artist(s) as mother-and-son, is a feat of storytelling. Faulknerian in its mythmaking, Delany-esque in its candor, Peck’s novel chronicles the queer, complex family history and present education of (birth-)marked narrator and insider-outsider, Judas ‘Jude’ Stammers. Vivid, multilayered and carnal, this novel never fails to surprise.”

—John Keene, author of Counternarratives

 

“Night Soil is a novel about art, genius, capitalism, and the uncomfortable, full of the pleasures of the unbeautiful and the broken, from the only genius I know who could write it and live. An incisive, shrewd meditation on just what marks the limits of the human heart, and why.”

—Alexander Chee, author of The Queen of the Night

 

“Nobody writes queer coming-of-age tales of love and longing like Dale Peck . . . This is a parable for a dead modern world that’s built shakily atop an undying past . . . Art, nature, race, gender, sexuality, all of it is reexamined in this fiction 2018 and onward cannot afford to skip. Riveting, mesmerizing, haunting.”

—Porochista Khakpour, author of Sick: A Memoir