The devil thinks i'm pretty - charlene elsby

Explosive and propulsive, The Devil Thinks Im Pretty proves Charlene Elsby to be a formidable talent.

This book will haunt you.

-Juliet Escoria, author of Juliet the Maniac Depraved, stark, and dripping in blood, The Devil Thinks Im Pretty by Charlene Elsby is an experience that demands to be felt.

Unique prose, dark musings, and an experimental structure blend beautifully with the layers of grief and bodily autonomy.

In the main characters labyrinthine mind, readers will find themselves seduced into what I can only describe as a really messed up coming-of-age story (in all the best, gory ways).

-Sara Tantlinger, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Devils Dreamland The Devil Thinks Im Pretty is an astonishing mirage, a novel full of dish soap and restaurant clothes, of summer months and arcane sex, of trailer parks and dishcloths, or cocks and thighs and food processors, fryer grease and the coal-black bodies of Erinyes, of maintenance fees and telephone bills.

Elsby taunts and teeters on the rock face of reality and delirium, chaos carnivals where words transmute into data dumps of unreliable memory, into unapologetic rebellion against the literary mundane.

A supernatural work of cigarette attitude and wit that shatters the cosmic rollercoaster, a seismic flare-up that left me exhilarated and questioning my own framework of despondency.

A welcome addition to the Charlene Elsby manifest.

Take a cool walk among the home décor of the Devil, its lustful, youll quite like it.

-Shane Jesse Christmass, author of Belfie Hell Unlike Platos realm of eternal forms, which he associates with the sun, Charlene Elsbys Devil lurks in the solar eclipse, in the eternal shadows that undergird existence.

A bildungsroman unlike any other, The Devil Thinks Im Pretty had me laughing out loud & deeply disturbed.

Through surgically precise prose, Elsby conjures a lean & mighty novel set in a trailer park full of memorable characters, devilish disruptions, & a plot that thickens towards an unforgettable finale.

I read it in one sitting.

-Logan Berry, author of Run-Off Sugar Crystal Lake As the unnamed narrator of Charlene Elsbys The Devil Thinks Im Pretty so wisely observes, We do define people according to whats been done to them, not what theyve done.

There are those who fuck, and there are those who are fucked.

There are performers and there are objects.

And at the center of it all, like the brilliant, blinding core of a burning.