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Speculative fiction was invented so stories like Listen to Your Sister could be told. In this heartbreaking yet wickedly funny tale, three siblings' love and traumatic pain are so acute that only the Nightmare World, a Dadaesque place where the rules of time and space are bent and childhood horrors run on loop, has a hope of accurately representing it. As creepily atmospheric as a Stephen Graham Jones novel, as knife-sharp in its observations about race as the best of Jordan Peele, and gorgeously written, Listen to Your Sister captures the soul-fracturing love of siblings growing up in a world that often feels like a horror show. What a knockout debut. -Ashley Winstead, author of Midnight is the Darkest Hour and In My Dreams I Hold a Knife
Incredibly original and seriously scary. Listen To Your Sister will make you feel the fear of being stuck in a nightmare that doesn't just strike at night. In this unsettling and eye-opening tale that centers around sibling love and loyalty, Neena Viel addresses the horrors of racism, poverty, abandonment, and substance abuse while making you consider how much of yourself you'd sacrifice to save someone you love. Gripping and powerful, this is horror at its finest. -Nick Medina, author of Sisters of the Lost Nation
Listen To Your Sister is a brilliant fever-dream of a novel that effortlessly dances between horror, literary, and family saga-sure to appeal to fans of a diverse mix of authors: Grady Hendrix, Tananarive Due, Mona Awad, and Stephen King. A vivid and lyrical exploration of traumas that are both ghastly and achingly relatable, this debut dives unflinchingly deep into the aching, Sisyphean tragedy of trying to save loved ones from the systems of oppression that bind us all-and cements Viel's permanent place on my bookshelf. -Maria Dong, author of Liar, Dreamer, Thief
Viel faces the dark side of family head on, painting a fever dream of the nightmarish obligations of love. -Maggie Thrash, author of Rainbow Black
Wonderfully weird and inventive. Viel's tale of siblings' love and struggle in modern America is as affecting as it is thought-provoking. -T.L. Huchu, USA Today bestselling author of The Library of the Dead
If you're looking for a smart, contemporary take on the classic cabin in the woods horror novel, look no further than Listen To Your Sister. -Erika T. Wurth, author of White Horse
Equal parts haunting and humane, Listen to Your Sister moves with breathtaking velocity. Rearranging the contours of speculative horror, Neena Viel tells a sharp, funny, unsettling story of what it means to fight, be it against inherently unfair systems or for the ones you love. Veil is a brilliant new voice, and this novel marks the beginning of a brilliant career. -Omar El Akkad, bestselling and award-winning author of What Strange Paradise and American War
Viel brilliantly pulls off both the comic and the terrifying in a skillfully crafted voice that will have you laughing right before it knocks you down with grief. I loved these characters and how Viel examines the real horror that the past can manifest in our present-day lives. This is an amazing debut. -Claire Jimenez, author of What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez
It takes significant skill to write such a mind-bending story, dancing on a knife-edge between what's real and what's impossible, while ensuring the reader connects with the characters - cares deeply about them, needs them to be okay. Neena Viel has that skill. She left me breathless and envious, and I'm eager to find out what she writes next. --Ginger Nuts of Horror
