"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 of the human condition. 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 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 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.