Nina de Gramont, author of The Last September and The Christie Affair A riveting, astonishing, and flat-out gorgeous debut. Then read it a second time, slowly, to savor language that drips and swells with the terrifying beauty of a Gulf Coast hurricane.
Once you start reading Girl in the Walls, you won’t want to do anything else. It is a story focused on the psychological without prescribing itself as such it entertains while providing a mirror to analyze the fears that make us leave our lights on just a little bit longer each night.” He makes the forgotten and easily brushed away threads of the story crystal clear, while entwining a narrative of growing up and learning to live with, while not clinging to, trauma. Gnuse tugs the seemingly insignificant into the spotlight and holds it there. “Girl in the Walls poses the question - how well do we really know where we live?. Gnuse's first novel, Girl in the Walls, gathers a damaged, plucky tween and an angst-ridden family and throws a hellacious storm at them, but still lets a little hope peek from behind the darkest clouds.” “A grieving, orphaned girl lives inside the walls of the last place where she felt love in this disquieting coming-of-age story. The sui-generis result is haunting and, like the characters, unforgettable." The Louisiana setting is evocative and a marvel of verisimilitude. Gnuse has done a brilliant job of making the implausible plausible and of creating characters, especially Eddie, who are simply unforgettable.
"Strange, outré-this remarkable debut novel is both of these and more. But about halfway through, Gnuse’s masterfully crafted slow burn ignites into a hair-raising thriller that is as unnerving as it is unexpected.” “The novel begins as an eerie meditation on grief, family dysfunction and things that go bump in the night.
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