My Death

Praise

“Lisa Tuttle is, quietly and unsensationally, the finest practitioner of unsettling fiction writing today. She can make you doubt reality, she can chill your flesh and walk you into the darkness with gentle, perfectly constructed prose. Her authorial voice is so sensible that it’s easy to forget, over and over, in story after story, that she’s one of the dangerous ones, the kind of writer that somebody really should have warned you about.” —Neil Gaiman

“Is [My Death] a chilling prediction, or does it point to a wished-for-ending, the consummation of a life?…originally published in 2004, repackaged as a modern classic, this riddling narrative laces fiction with fact, while touching upon (among other things) the mysteries of attraction, identity, and the fate of female creatives in the shadow of men.” —Stephanie Cross, Daily Mail

“Tuttle’s work to date has been categorized as horror, or speculative fiction, and My Death deftly navigates between conventional storytelling and the uncanny feeling that things are perhaps other than they appear. The theme of the alternate feminist narrative is actually integrated into the form of the novel itself…in the end, My Death is not about death at all, but about life after catastrophe: how art revives us, and how writers live on in their readers.” —Lauren Elkin, The New York Times

“My Death is very readable, in that page-turning, suspense-building way….The fun of My Death is in its propulsive mystery plot…it is a creepy, cozy pleasure, the kind of story that bothers a reader in the nicest sort of way.” —Biblioklept

“Full of twists and turns, the book conjures the rich inner lives of women working on the fringes of artistic communities that often forget to memorialize or acknowledge them, even as Tuttle keeps taut the thread of suspense that animates the story. Powerful and empoweringly weird.” —Kirkus Reviews

“Lisa Tuttle’s characters crawl into places that many genre authors avoid….As sexually uncomfortable as her books can be, it’s the emotional discomfort that clings to you….Tuttle’s books are messy and chaotic. They feel desperate. They feel human. They feel like real life.” —Grady Hendrix, Tor.com

“It is [Tuttle’s] influence, ringing loud and clear, on the award-winning work of authors like Carmen Maria Machado, Elizabeth McCracken, and Karen Russell that will finally lead grateful readers back to her.” —Booklist