“This novel is not so much a puzzle to be solved as it is an experience to be had. Something to be tasted and consumed, crumbs falling by the wayside along with our useless insecurities.”
—NPR
“[The Blue Girl] winds beautiful prose with the stark, sorrowful imagery of loss, misunderstanding, and the ever-tightening, close-to-breaking ties of family.”
—Full Stop
“Foos has crafted a surreal story that is suffocating yet utterly compelling.”
—Shelf Awareness
“Laurie Foos is a weird Midas—everything she touches turns strange. . . . Each novel is as hysterical, weird, and heartbreaking as the last.”
—The Rumpus
“The prose is clean, exacting and approachable, which makes the arrangement of the book—and the swirling vortex of complicated psychologies—even more impressive and heartbreaking.”
—The Star Tribune
“Reading Laurie Foos’ The Blue Girl is like peering into someone else’s dream . . . an entrancing experience.”
—Nomadic Press
“Part fantasy, totally fantastical, this is a book that will give your sweet tooth a twinge of the rottenness . . . and a taste of the dark secrets unsaid, especially those between mothers and daughters.”
—The Riveter
“To put it plainly, Laurie Foos has written a stunning novel about despair.”
—Entropy
“Strangely beautiful. . . . Foos’s talent for both subtle and fantastical imagery, the novel really feels like an unpredictable and emotional thrill ride.”
—NewPages
“Although the premise is fantastical, Foos grounds it in the relationships (and secrets) within families, especially between mothers and daughters.”
—BookPage
“Laurie Foos has a knack for the surreal with a side of feminism.”
—Dame Magazine
“A strange dark modern day fairy tale. . . . Dreamlike and sensory.”
—KAXE Northern Community Radio
“The novel deeply understands what it is to be a woman struggling with her role as wife and mother. . . . [It] impresses on its readers the strength that a secret can tangibly and physically carry—enough weight to make up an ingredient in a cake.”
—Samantha Preddie
