Folks–it is a scary and wonderful thing to put a book into the world, and every reader who reads this book does me an honor. I’m so grateful to each of you who has chosen to give your attention to The Likely World.

I can’t wait to hear what you think.  A book is inert until it reacts with its audience.  My fondest wish is that a reader somewhere will make something strange and unanticipated with The Likely World.

Mary Gaitskill calls it “bizarre and beautiful.”

In Vanity Fair, Lysley Tenorio calls it “unlike anything I’ve ever read.”

Chang-rae Lee says it’s ‘groovy, badass smart and totally trippy.”

And you?

xoxoxo Melanie