"I was astonished by how many huge ideas could fit into this taut, swift novella by Brenda Peynado: it's all at once a meditation on motherhood, grief, war, environmental collapse, dread, and the nature of memory and time; yet the book is miraculously also buoyant, thrilling, a breathless and headlong read for a breathtaking time on this planet. I ate it up."--Lauren Groff, New York Times bestselling author
"
Time's Agent is
a gorgeous mediation on grief, colonialism, love and parenthood. Sharp and sparkling."--Lauren Beukes, bestselling author of
The Shining Girls "At once an incredibly human story about family and sacrifice as well as
a staggering work of anti-capitalist eco fiction,
Time's Agent is
heartbreaking, inspiring, genius."--
Reactor "There are huge, fascinating ideas laced throughout this story of shattering grief...
Fans of Carmen Maria Machado will find in this debut novelist a new author to follow every bit as voraciously."--
Library Journal, starred review
Praise for The Rock Eaters "
Peynado is a writer willing to cross literary borders."--Julia Alvarez
"Peynado conjures both the playful sorcery of Kelly Link and the haunted atmosphere of Kali Fajardo-Anstine."--
NPR "
A genre-bending sociopolitical commentary with prose that shines."--
The Washington Post "
Each of Peynado's storis is finely formed as a diamond...Wily but throbbing with heart, they dart into unexpected crevices of human experience...They speak to our unkempt, scarred world, even as they reimagine it not just once, but repeatedly."--
The San Francisco Chronicle "Brenda Peynado's
The Rock Eaters only came out in 2021, but listening to it,
you'd be forgiven for thinking it's been around long enough to be a modern magical realist classic."
--Paste "
Genre-bending brilliance . . . Peynado's harnessing of the diasporic imagination establishes her as
a true magician of the marvelous real."--
The Boston Globe
