Molly

"""A dark miracle--actual evidence that what we can never know, what we could never imagine about the one we love, is what binds us to them, beyond death.""--MICHAEL W. CLUNE ""I was gripped from the start by this memoir's urgent honesty. Blake Butler turned a story that was almost unspeakable into a narrative at once brutal and loving, broken and solid.""--CATHERINE LACEY ""The most immediate feeling of life I've ever had reading a book--a life lived at the desk and out in the world, a life of openness and secrets. ""Make art for me,"" Molly wrote to Blake. ""I will read it all."" I breathed along with every word.""--PATRICIA LOCKWOOD ""Molly is a brilliant and brutal book. Blake Butler fearlessly takes on love and grief and the mysteries of this world and the next.""--EMMA CLINE ""Molly is a dark, gorgeously crafted read. It contains a tremendous amount of pain, and the loss of life, loss of potential, loss of what could have been weighs heavy. That Butler makes it out the other side whole enough to tell this story is the glimmer of hope that sustains the reader in the end.""--SUZANNE VAN ATTEN ""THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION"" ""Extraordinary and raw ... the triumph of his book lies in its compassion.""--HELEN BROWN ""THE TELEGRAPH"" ""How to praise a book of such wounded beauty as Blake Butler's phenomenal Molly? The same way one would a life lost early: with love and sincerity and anger and wonder and lithely elegant and observant insights that remind us and inspire us, as Butler precisely does, to live and to love ourselves.""--JOHN D'AGATA ""The best book I've read this year.""--Jessica Ferri ""Los Angeles Times"""