[A] soul-stirringly expansive novel,It Lasts Forever and Then Its Over, classic dramatic structures introduction, rise, climax, fall, resolution are distended, and linger after the curtains close. By resisting endings, de Marckens deeply imaginative novel reflects that world our collective story.
Kate Simpson,Telegraph
'Astounding, inventive, and utterly original, Anne de Marcken has written a freakish classic with wisdom to spare about life, death, and the eerily vast space between. I was absolute putty in this books hands.'
Alexandra Kleeman, author ofSomething New Under the Sun
'It Lasts Foreveris sad, shocking, funny, prophetic, visceral, and deeply human. From amid the dislocations, the lacerations, a profound meditation arises. Highly recommended.'
Jeff VanderMeer, author ofDead Astronauts
[A] strange, haunting novel by Anne de Marcken, whose acerbic voice breathes new life into the fictional possibilities of the undead.
Joshua Rees,Buzz
Long and short, its hard to imagine a more erudite zombie story. This is de Marckens central trope and her triumph. She seizes the gut-smeared cliches ofThe Walking Deadand recomposes them as a philosophical odyssey. Better yet, despite her fictions core seriousness, its quest for the Real, her undead stumble through a Grand Guignol farce.
John Domini,Brooklyn Rail
Crepuscular and gradual, minimal and tender, the words and photographic poems in Anne de Marckens The Accident are filled with measured, continuous, indestructible longing.... she has a quiet way of making you surrender, ecologically and aesthetically, through her accounts transient, fugitive beauty and explicit interlacing dormant fragility.
Vi Khi Nao, author of Human Tetris (praise for The Accident)
'The Accidenttakes place in that gap between seeing and feeling, feeling and knowing, a bird trapped inside your head and something brighter than fear. Lunar in its hold and its hope, this is a book that reaches through trauma to uncover memory as an end and a beginning. With its deft shifts in perspective, its images at once soothingly atmospheric and hauntingly specific,The Accidentgestures toward a dream where intimate claustrophobia gives way to a landscape that shifts with the imagination.'
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, author ofSketchtasy (praise for The Accident)
