"To read T Kira Madden is to feel your insides endlessly shifting, between barbed and rage-simmering to amused and serene. This brilliant and ever-expanding novel evoked fervent head nods, internal screams, and stretches of pondering. I would follow T Kira anywhere." - Chanel Miller, New York Times bestselling author of Know My Name: A Memoir "Epic in its scope, intimate in its evocation, Whidbey reads like a thriller, compels like a mystery and regarding the human condition, converses with the classics. It''s hard to believe a first-time novelist produced a work as soulful and insightful as Whidbey; then again, one comes away certain that no other writer than T Kira Madden could have composed so profound an accounting. This is the book everyone will be talking about." - Adam Johnson, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning author of The Orphan Master''s Son and Fortune Smiles "It is rare that in one writer you''ll find a virtuoso precision on the sentence level, wonderous compassion for character, an unflinching willingness to claw into the heart of human suffering and a propulsive, engaging structure. Reading Whidbey feels like witnessing a cosmic, unlikely happening, like the planets aligning.

This book will break you open. Whidbey is Masterwork. In T Kira Mahealani Madden we are seeing a master at work." - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, New York Times bestselling author of Chain-Gang All-Stars and Friday Black "It is not enough to say that Whidbey is a masterpiece or T Kira Madden is a genius--it is, she is. But how lucky we are to have such a radically empathetic novel about pain and justice; such a rigorous, lucid accounting of the strangulation of violence and its slow, meticulous unwinding. Whidbey is an exceptional and staggering gift." - Carmen Maria Machado, New York Times bestselling author of In the Dream House and Her Body and Other Parties " Whidbey has the twisty plot of the most luscious literary thrillers, but every sentence sings with a poet''s attunement to language and rhythm. The novel dives into sticky questions-- about the commodification of victims'' stories, the flaws of the justice system, trauma recovery--without ever flinching, unspooling its investigation through the lives of its unforgettable characters, women who will haunt you long after you turn the final page.

I read it in a furious burst, heartbroken and restored in equal measure by its truth-telling, its wisdom, and bracing compassion. Whidbey is a marvel, and T Kira Madden one of our most exquisite writers." - Julie Buntin, author of Marlena "Whidbey is the book I''ve been praying for. A novel that asks to hold your hand while it shows you exactly how much harm human beings are capable of inflicting on one another. It is feral and sly; it''s simultaneously a goddamn tearjerker. Madden''s storytelling is gorgeously multifaceted, reflecting both vulnerability and violence with great earnesty. Whidbey harnesses all of the author''s tremendous talent and wields it with surgical precision. T Kira Mahealani Madden is undoubtedly one of our greatest contemporary writers.

" - Kristen Arnett, New York Times bestselling author of Stop Me If You''ve Heard This One and Mostly Dead Things "Madden holds nothing back in Whidbey, a brilliant, terrifying portrait of the long-tailed beast of abuse and the women united because of it. For readers wondering if they can handle a book that deals in darkness, mining for the deepest gold, I''d say this: by telling this truth, and by doing it the way only art like this can, we fight back against the systems that hold us down. Revel in the beauty, the skill, and the suspense of this smart, twisty, timely tour de force. In the realm of Patricia Highsmith and Gone Girl lives Whidbey, an extraordinary masterpiece." - Chelsea Bieker, author of Madwoman and Godshot "Combustible. this is an absorbing, energized novel of real-feeling characters attempting to live through incomprehensible violence and existential fury." - Booklist (starred review).