Garth Greenwell is an intensely beautiful and gorgeous writer. Most American literature seems neutered by comparison.'Sheila Heti, author of Motherhood'Stunning, provocatively revelatory and atmospherically profound. Here is love and sex as art, as pulse, as truth.'Lisa Taddeo, author of Three Women'An impressive book: moving, radical, both beautiful and violent, unexpected. Garth Greenwell is a major writer, and his writing provides us tools to affirm ourselves, to exist - to fight.'Édouard Louis, author of The End of Eddy'So rarely do words make comprehensible the inevitability and confusion of desire and determination as Garth Greenwell's writing does. Cleanness captures the indefinableness of pain and intimacy, love and alienation, vulnerability and sustainability.'Yiyun Li, author of The Vagrants'I don't know how Garth Greenwell writes such delicate, profane fiction. Reading this book made me want to sit with my emotions and desires, it made me want to be a better writer.'Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties