[ A] lacerating, exhilarating debut novel It manages to be both boisterous and bleak, life-enhancing and life-denying, familiar and yet wholly original. It feels essential. You will read nothing else like it this year -- Catherine Taylor * Guardian * Blistering, brilliant, savage and smart. This is a superb debut and Colwill Brown is the real thing -- EIMEAR McBRIDE, author of A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing Tender and raucous, Shaz, Kel, and Rachs friendship is brilliantly realized. We Pretty Pieces of Flesh is a novel brimming with rough poetry, heart, and mischief -- FERDIA LENNON, author of Glorious Exploits Its gloriously individual voice makes this standout first novel glow with vigor and hope * Wall Street Journal * Dazzling... We dont know the last book that captured teenage girlhood and female friendship this deftly * Oprah Daily * With this debut, Colwill Brown announces herself as unforgettable... a wondrous, luminous novel -- NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH, author of Chain-Gang All-Stars Colwill Brown is, simply, brilliant and original on every level... We Pretty Pieces of Flesh is astonishing, as hilarious and wrenching as life itself -- ELIZABETH McCRACKEN, author of The Hero of This Book A brilliant portrait of female friendship, nearly the equal in honesty and subtlety to Elena Ferrantes Neapolitan novels * Kirkus (starred review) * Like the most beguiling fiction about friendship and girlhood, Brown's heartful, humane debut will pull readers in and make them wonder how anyone survives either * Booklist (starred review) * A bold, rowdy, and compelling new voice in fiction -- NAOMI BOOTH, author of Animals at Night