You Glow in the Dark

"An eerie mix of the familiar and unreal. Colanzi is intent on blending genres (horror, cyberpunk, literary fiction). Her reality is a warped one, shifting between a violent past and frightening future, where the heat and toxic radiation ― and the babble of inner voices ― combine to create a hallucinatory vision."

-- Anderson Tepper * Four New Books in Translation Test the Bounds of Reality *

"Places, molecules, and species sprawl and mutate; centuries-long retrospection, cyberpunk grit, first-person dream narrative, and religious fantasia fit together, simultaneously fabulist and real, vivified by Colanzi’s mysteriously lucid prose… In Colanzi’s writing, reality is grander and weirder than we imagined."

-- Drew Zeiba * A Secret and Threatening Reality: On Liliana Colanzi's "You Glow in the Dark" *

"In [Colanzi’s] tales, violence is something in the air or soil, something ready to take us over or occupy our lives at any moment."

-- Leah Rachel von Essen * The Violence of Human Folly in "You Glow in the dark" by Liliana Colanzi *

“You Glow in the Dark is a mesmerizing mix of gothic horror and cyberpunk that will keep readers on their toes.”

-- Shannon Carlin * The 100 Must-Read Books of 2024 | You Glow in the Dark by Liliana Colan