Madame Zero: 9 Stories - Tapa dura

"These stories showcase Hall's thematic ambition and formal skill. She's adept at matching voice to narrative, and her language is inventive and expressive ... Hall finds the weirdness in everyday life and makes the strange feel quotidian."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"So fearsomely excellent it almost hurt to read. Truly the best collection I've come across in a decade."--Wells Tower

"What a marvelous collection! I loved these stories, each one inviting us--with bright, clear, and startling sentences--on a journey into the heart of wilderness: what it is, where it resides, and how we each hunger for its many incarnations."--Robin MacArthur, author of Half-Wild: Stories

"A disquieting demonstration of the power of the form."--Publishers Weekly

"Razor-sharp writing forms a striking canvas for stories which teeter on the edge of bizarre and are riveting and vital."--Booklist

"If you haven't read [Hall] yet, the best of these dark tales are a perfect place to start."--The Daily Telegraph

"Hall looks with frightening believability into dystopian, apocalyptic and disease-ravaged near futures. Already Booker-shortlisted twice for her novels, Hall is an edgy, sensuous and immediate writer of striking power and grace."--Sunday Times (London)

"From childlessness to killer superbugs, these powerful stories are dazzling in range and execution."--Mail on Sunday

"Beautiful, rich and unsettling, filled with dark ideas, inner and outer."--Stylist (UK)

"A bold set of stories that speak to the times... Humming with tension and enlivened by Hall's nimble prose, these of-the-moment stories form a collection that's destined to endure."--BookPage