![]() ![]() " Everything Under is about fluidity - of water, of words and their meanings, and of identity. The result is an uncanny update of ancient storytelling." -The Atlantic She coins words, channels outlier voices, and fractures chronology. pulls off several marvels at once in Everything Under. By breaking it down to its barest parts, she fits us into tapestries of her own making-holding up a mirror to us before shattering and reassembling it." - Entertainment Weekly deliberately fashions language as a 'character'. "Johnson is one of her generation's most intriguing authors. Johnson has done all this in a book that will probably be read, like Ali Smith's How to Be Both, for years to come as a part of the reclaiming of narrative territory." - The Boston Globe It takes a bold mind to steer so many elements through one tale, and an even stronger stylist to render them in a narrative that heeds, but seems not to, the laws of nature. Her sentences have an aqueous quality." - The New Yorker ![]() Johnson's own writing summons the just-off-ness of the uncanny she is capable of passages of exquisite creepiness. Johnson carries on this grand tradition by making something very old uncannily new." - The New York Times Book Review ![]()
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