Emma Cline is the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls and the story collection Daddy. The Girls was a finalist for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. It was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and the winner of the Shirley Jackson Award. Cline’s stories have been published in The New Yorker, Granta, The Paris Review, and The Best American Short Stories. She was named a Guggenheim Fellow, received the Plimpton Prize from The Paris Review and an O. Henry Award, and was chosen as one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists.
“Daddy approaches questions about power and connivance from a
flurry of different angles. . . . [Cline] comes for the king and
she doesn’t miss.”—Los Angeles Times
“Brilliant, dark . . . Cline’s fiction is full of binaries pressing
up against one another: youthful promise and life’s realities;
success and failure; darkness and humor; external beauty and
internal rot.”—Wall Street Journal
“Cline is an astonishingly gifted stylist, but it is her piercing
understanding of modern humiliation that makes these stories
vibrate with life. . . . Brilliant.”—The New York Times
“Cline is a master of fiction that wallows in the heavy weight of
the unsaid, with perversion and darkness simmering beneath her
characters’ tightly controlled surfaces. Daddy’s ten masterful,
provocative stories confirm that Cline is a staggering
talent.”—Esquire
“A hair-raising collection of short fiction that at once discomfits
and titillates, delineating the various ways women and men wrestle
with the male gaze.”—O Magazine
“Cline’s sharply drawn characters are the cowed, contemplative
survivors of self-inflicted trauma, both seismic and quotidian. . .
. Cline writes with such grace and precision that every sentence is
a joy to absorb.”—LitHub
“Daddy is a striking achievement, the assured work of a young
writer with talent to burn.”—The Boston Globe
“The payoffs are as gratifying as they are shattering.”—Publishers
Weekly
“Scintillating . . . This is a technically perfect
book.”—New York
“Cline’s stories constitute a riveting, timely tapestry of
realizations, motivations, and desires.”—Booklist
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