Maud Newton’s first book was named one of the best of 2022 by New Yorker, NPR, Washington Post, Time, Boston Globe, Esquire, Garden & Gun, Entertainment Weekly, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and Chicago Tribune. It was a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection, a Roxane Gay Audacious Book Club Pick, and a finalist for the 2023 John Leonard Prize. The New York Times Book Review calls it “a literary feat that simultaneously builds and excavates identity.”