Daddy approaches questions about power and connivance from a flurry of different angles. . . . [Cline] comes for the king and she doesn t miss. Los Angeles Times
Brilliant, dark . . . Cline s fiction is full of binaries pressing up against one another: youthful promise and life s realities; success and failure; darkness and humor; external beauty and internal rot. Wall Street Journal
Cline is an astonishingly gifted stylist, but it is her piercing understanding of modern humiliation that makes these stories vibrate with life. . . . Brilliant. The New York Times
Cline is a master of fiction that wallows in the heavy weight of the unsaid, with perversion and darkness simmering beneath her characters tightly controlled surfaces. Daddy s ten masterful, provocative stories confirm that Cline is a staggering talent. Esquire
A hair-raising collection of short fiction that at once discomfits and titillates, delineating the various ways women and men wrestle with the male gaze. O Magazine
Cline s sharply drawn characters are the cowed, contemplative survivors of self-inflicted trauma, both seismic and quotidian. . . . Cline writes with such grace and precision that every sentence is a joy to absorb. LitHub
Daddy is a striking achievement, the assured work of a young writer with talent to burn. The Boston Globe
The payoffs are as gratifying as they are shattering. Publishers Weekly
Scintillating . . . This is a technically perfect book. New York
Cline s stories constitute a riveting, timely tapestry of realizations, motivations, and desires. Booklist
Emma Cline is the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls and the story collection Daddy. The Girls was a finalist for the Center for Fiction s First Novel Prize, the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. It was a New York Times Editors Choice and was the winner of the Shirley Jackson Award. Cline s stories have been published in The New Yorker, Granta, The Paris Review and The Best American Short Stories anthologies. She received an O Henry Award and the Plimpton Prize from The Paris Review, and was chosen as one of Granta s Best Young American Novelists.
