Author Quotes

WHAT IT'S LIKE IN WORDS IS A CONSUMING PORTRAIT  OF A YOUNG WOMAN building and rebuilding herself from the wreckage of her past lives. Eliza Moss masterfully renders how it feels to be ruled by grief and toxic obsession, and what it takes to break out of a prison of your own making. Devastating and tender, What It’s Like in Words is a love letter to friendship, art-making, and the messiest parts of ourselves.

- Ruth Madievsky, author of ALL-NIGHT PHARMACY

I DEVOURED WHAT IT'S LIKE IN WORDS WITH BREATHLESS ADMIRATION for Eliza Moss's raw, propulsive story of toxic love and obsession...The writing—gorgeous, crystalline, tender—is ultimately an ode to the rejuvenating friendship between Enola and her best friend Ruth. If you enjoyed Genevieve Wheeler's ADELAIDE, Carola Lovering's TELL ME LIES, and the work of writers Dolly Alderton and Phoebe Waller-Bridge, you'll tear through this dark and addictive debut about a woman learning, finally, to value herself.

-Caitlin Barasch, author of A NOVEL OBSESSION

WITH ECHOES OF SALLY ROONEY AND LILY KING, ELIZA MOSS IS A FRESH NEW VOICE who exquisitely captures the quirks of what it means to be imperfectly human and beautifully fragile. This book reads like poetry.

- Neely Tubati Alexander, author of LOVE BUZZ and IN A NOT-SO-PERFECT WORLD