A/S/L

Praise

Praise for A/S/L

Seattle Times Most Anticipated Books of 2025 * Lit Hub Most Anticipated Books of 2025

“Beyond astonishing, imbued with witchery, lust, the isolation and connection of a game, devastating heartbreak, and the ageless, aching wrap of friendship and time. I can’t remember the last time a trans novel affected me this deeply. I can’t remember the last time any novel affected me this deeply. Jeanne Thornton is like a literary sorceress becoming more and more powerful with every new volume.”
—Casey Plett, author of Little Fish

“If we see the Great American Novel less as a singular achievement than as a genre—lengthy and humanistic, concerned with individual destinies as a means to addressing What It Means To Be An American Now—then it is no exaggeration to say Jeanne Thornton is the greatest living Great American Novelist.”
—Cat Fitzpatrick, author of The Call-Out

“For those of us in that generation that first grew up behind computer screens in the intimacy of strangers, the book is a vital touchstone. Characteristic of Thornton’s work, A/S/L doesn’t cheat, nor dumb down the complicated circumstances of its characters and their obsessions; she makes legible even the most esoteric of obscura. The novel is unapologetically authentic and unflinchingly honest.”
—Bill Cheng, author of Southern Cross the Dog


Praise for Jeanne Thornton

“I suspect [Summer Fun] will come to be considered the Pet Sounds of trans literature: a masterpiece that feels both astonishingly new and comfortingly familiar.”
—Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby

“In Summer Fun, Jeanne Thornton, that slow-burn superstar, has dropped a punk’s pop masterpiece.”
—Andrea Lawlor, author of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

“Summer Fun is a fully realized vision so strange and compelling that even in writing this blurb I still can’t quite shake the sensation of having genuinely known these characters, if only for a short and magical while.”
—Jordy Rosenberg, author of Confessions of the Fox