Emma Cline s The Guest the must-read anxious-girl book of the season . . . offers a sharp, nuanced approach to an outwardly frothy premise, submerging her readers in an anxiety-ridden world where class struggle seethes under the surface. . . TIME
Cline generates an impressive amount of intrigue . . . The descriptions are frequently bracing and acute, sharpened to icepicks by a stance of amoral neutrality. The Wall Street Journal
A wonderfully suspenseful examination of luxury, delusion, class and fear. Minneapolis Star-Tribune
Young, beautiful Alex is . . . a grifter wandering through a pricey, dreamlike summer playground looking for her next mark. Cline s exquisite writing makes us care in spite of ourselves. People
Enthralling . . . Who needs living when you ve got The Guest in your bag? Jezebel
Emma Cline serves glitz and unease. Vanity Fair
In her first novel since 2016 s runaway hit The Girls Emma Cline returns with another story of sex and manipulation . . . Philadelphia Inquirer
A smoldering thriller that explores desire and deception. The Washington Post
With her propulsive third book, Cline confirms her reputation as the literary prophet of women on the brink . . . Dreamlike and disaffected, this charged study of class and gender lingers like a bad sunburn. Esquire
[Cline has] skill with language . . . [and] shimmering insights into complexities of womanhood and desire. Los Angeles Review of Books
Sultry and engrossing, with a note of menace, [The Guest] [is a] gorgeously smart affair whose deceptive lightness conceals strange depths and an arresting originality. The Guardian
Cline is a master of depicting the nefarious and atmospheric menace that often lurks adjacent to our most glittery environments, and she does so here with subdued but no less cutting aplomb. Vogue
Cline quietly continues to be one of the best and most discomfiting young writers working today. Entertainment Weekly
Eerily captivating. Elle
Cline s writing at its very best hypnotically propulsive, viscerally disquieting, and moving in the most unpredictable ways. Financial Times
Cline weaves through settings and characters with intentional disorientation, shifting ever darker, ever more suspenseful . . . Cline proves herself to be one of the boldest, most complicated writers working today. San Francisco Chronicle
An intoxicating, sun-drunk work that tells the story of a hand-to-God grifter, one whose head you re both terrified of and want to bask in forever, until you wake up sunburnt to a crisp. Nylon Galvanizing and so utterly readable. The reader, who ingests the novel s sumptuous atmosphere and the thrill of trespass captured in Cline s sharp, tense prose, is implicated alongside the protagonist. The Millions
Her odyssey of desperation and misadventures feels like Barry Lyndon for Gen Z. BuzzFeed
Will keep your blood pressure as high as if you were following a serial killer stalking their next victim. Paste
I loved every moment of The Guest: the intensity, the control, the atmosphere, the psychological escalation . . . the way it lets nobody off the hook and yet is not without deep humanity. Sam Lipsyte
The pathology brilliantly observed by The Guest would not feel so edgy if it were not perilously close to an aspirational ideal. Geoff Dyer
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 s John Leonard Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. It was a New York Times Editors Choice and 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. She received the Plimpton Prize from The Paris Review and an O. Henry Award, and was chosen as one of Granta s Best Young American Novelists.
