"EMILY SCHULTZ IS MY NEW HERO." --STEPHEN KING on Emily Schultz "LIKE THE LITERARY LOVE CHILD OF NAOMI WOLF AND STEPHEN KING, The Blondes examines our cultural attitudes about beauty through the lens of a post-9/11, high-alert nightmare. The result is a SPELLBINDING brew, both satirical and deeply satisfying." --Helene Wecker, author of The Golem and the Jinni "Sharp and fluid and legitimately disturbing. A THINKING PERSON'S NAILBITER." --Ben Lorry, author of Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day " The Blondes is intelligent, MESMERIZING, and fearless. An entirely original and beautifully twisted satire with a heart of darkness." --Emily St.
John Mandel, author of The Lola Quartet "An energetic, startling novel. Emily Schultz is a writer with a deadly sense of humor. YOU LAUGH ONE MOMENT, YOU'RE FRIGHTENED THE NEXT. As unsettling as it is funny, The Blondes had me hooked from an early line: The neighbors have finished burning the hair. How could anybody not read on from there?" --Peter Orner, author of Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge "Emily Schultz gives new meaning to the term 'femme fatale' in her apocalyptic, darkly satirical new novel. A gripping and unsettling story.It's a scarily realistic state of affairs." -- The Toronto Star " The Blondes takes you by surprise and keeps on surprising.
" --Andrew Pyper, author of The Demonologist "A nail-biter that is equal parts suspense, science fiction, and a funny, dark sendup of the stranglehold of gender." -- Kirkus Reviews (Starred) "Suspenseful, ferociously clever, exceedingly well written, poignant and hilarious." -- Booklist (Starred) "Genre and fans of feminist horror will welcome Emily Schultz' skin-crawling, Cronenbergian satire The Blondes , a horror story offering a refreshingly feminine spin to the ever-expanding pool of apocalyptic fiction." -- Rue Morgue "Fast-paced drama, punctuated with humor.Schultz writes a subtle commentary on how discrimination operates around the globe." -- Shelf Awareness "Schultz spins an eerie tale with perspective into our cultural attitudes about beauty." -- Entertainment Weekly "Emily Shultz balances biting humor and thrilling suspense in a complex story." -- US Weekly "What started out as a pseudo zombie-tale is now also a road story, and a feminist bildungsroman, and a parable about prejudice and reproductive freedom and immigration" -- The Los Angeles Times.