"Oola is so good." -Dana Schwartz, New York Observer
". . .I fell hard for Oola. A gloriously labyrinthine love story, packing major verve and form. . .The prose is satisfyingly rich and thick, and often left me thunderstruck. It strikes that perfect literary balance between articulacy and mystery. I can't tell you how many sentences I re-read. It's the kind of book you want to linger in and never leave; the kind of book that DOES things to you. . .Poetic, inspiring, just wow. Brittany Newell is truly one to watch! . . .There is an energy here that runs to the end of its leash but is still beautifully controlled. So much is captured within its pages. In short: I adored it." -Emma Jane Unsworth, author of Animals
"The narrator of Oola is unlike anyone I’ve read before—but, more important, Brittany Newell writes prose unlike anyone I’ve read before: exquisitely, strangely, and with an electric spark of black humor. I wish “eerily beautiful” weren’t a cliché, because it perfectly describes this debut." -Teddy Wayne, author of The Love Song of Jonny Valentine, Kapitoil, and Loner
"Every now and then, I come across a voice that sounds like no one else, a cadence and vocabulary so specific that it feels like the beginning of a new genre. Brittany Newell writes like that; the way her mind works is so devilishly dark and achingly tender that I kept wanting to put the book down in order to savor it for longer. Many people have been called "bold new voices" in American fiction, but Newell earns the title. This debut is the beginning of a career I hope to watch for decades to come." -Rachel Syme
"[Oola is a] twisted debut, testing the boundaries between love, obsession, and identity. . . .Newell's rangy, circuitous tale is a kind of queer Nadja for millennials with a self-satirizing—and satisfying—bite. A dreamy and provocative exploration of sex, privilege, and self-discovery." -Kirkus
