Finalist for the 2019 Stella Prize
Finalist for the 2019 New South Wales Premier Literary Awards
Finalist for the 2018 Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction
Finalist for the Australia Literature Society Gold Medal
“This inventive work satisfies in its blending of teenage ennui and a fragmented noir aesthetic.”
—Publishers Weekly
“[H]yperassociative, impressively strange.”
—Kirkus
“Strange and raucous. . . . Lau captures [it all] with a chaotic, instantly addictive style and canny insights into the motivations that drive people to do some very dark things.”
—Kristin Iversen, Refinery29
“[A] rapturous inversion of boy-meets-girl; a narrative that unfurls with prescience in surrealist vignettes, laced with cosmic specificities.”
—Gauraa Shekhar, Maudlin House
“This novel is a strange peninsula of tender and splintered and waterlogged prose. I want to bottle it and put it on my mantle and dare every guest to take a sip.”
—Hilary Leichter
“Bouncing with the violence of everyday banality, Pink Mountain on Locust understands how the malaise of youth can turn the humdrum into the magical. Jaime Marina Lau has the poetic third eye and she walks between worlds. Weird AF, but in that good way.”
—Nikki Darling
“Episodic, startling, young, this is a must read. The language is indeed elastic, and lovely.”
—Chaya Buvaneswar
“Queasily cinematic, as if Wong Kar-Wai and Agnes Varda took an acid trip together, shot through with flashes of sly, pitch perfect humor.”
—Mimi Lok
“[A] deliciously disjointed novel . . . [with] fizzingly short chapters and an ultra-contemporary plot that seems tailor-made to appeal to distracted digital natives.”
—ELLE Australia
“Lau’s dizzying prose is like a series of crazy neon-lit performance art as she dissects, with extraordinary effervescence, Monk’s teenage angst.”
—Stella Prize Judges' Citation
