The Blondes on NPR's Best Books of 2015 list and a Bookpage Best Book of 2015
"Emily Schultz is my new hero." --Stephen King
The Blondes is a hilarious and whip-smart novel where an epidemic of a rabies-like disease is carried only by blonde women, all of whom must go to great lengths to conceal their blondeness.
Emily Schultz's beautifully realized novel is a mix of satire, thriller, and serious literary work. With biting satiric wit, The Blondes is at once an examination of the complex relationships between women and a merciless but giddily enjoyable portrait of what happens in a world where beauty is--literally--deadly.
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"EMILY SCHULTZ IS MY NEW HERO." --STEPHEN KING on Emily Schultz
"LIKE THE LITERARY LOVE CHILD OF NAOMI WOLF AND STEPHEN KING, The Blondes examines our cultural attitudes about beauty through the lens of a post-9/11, high-alert nightmare. The result is a SPELLBINDING brew, both satirical and deeply satisfying." --Helene Wecker, author of The Golem and the Jinni
"Sharp and fluid and legitimately disturbing. A THINKING PERSON'S NAILBITER." --Ben Lorry, author of Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day
"The Blondes is intelligent, MESMERIZING, and fearless. An entirely original and beautifully twisted satire with a heart of darkness." --Emily St. John Mandel, author of The Lola Quartet
"An energetic, startling novel. Emily Schultz is a writer with a deadly sense of humor. YOU LAUGH ONE MOMENT, YOU'RE FRIGHTENED THE NEXT. As unsettling as it is funny, The Blondes had me hooked from an early line: The neighbors have finished burning the hair... How could anybody not read on from there?" --Peter Orner, author of Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge
"Emily Schultz gives new meaning to the term 'femme fatale' in her apocalyptic, darkly satirical new novel... A gripping and unsettling story...It's a scarily realistic state of affairs." --The Toronto Star
"The Blondes takes you by surprise and keeps on surprising." --Andrew Pyper, author of The Demonologist
"A nail-biter that is equal parts suspense, science fiction, and a funny, dark sendup of the stranglehold of gender." --Kirkus Reviews (Starred)
"Suspenseful, ferociously clever, exceedingly well written, poignant and hilarious." --Booklist (Starred)
"Genre and fans of feminist horror will welcome Emily Schultz' skin-crawling, Cronenbergian satire The Blondes, a horror story offering a refreshingly feminine spin to the ever-expanding pool of apocalyptic fiction." --Rue Morgue
"Fast-paced drama, punctuated with humor...Schultz writes a subtle commentary on how discrimination operates around the globe." --Shelf Awareness
"Schultz spins an eerie tale with perspective into our cultural attitudes about beauty." --Entertainment Weekly
"Emily Shultz balances biting humor and thrilling suspense in a complex story." --US Weekly
"What started out as a pseudo zombie-tale is now also a road story, and a feminist bildungsroman, and a parable about prejudice and reproductive freedom and immigration" --The Los Angeles Times
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