“A perfectly chaotic one-that-got-away love story that captures all the paralyzing anxieties of modern love and life. Page-turning, fun as hell, and ultimately heartbreaking and heart-mending, this book is about taking the chances we must while there is still time on the clock. An anthem for living and loving with abandon.”—Chelsea Bieker, author of Madwoman and Heartbroke
“Genevieve Hudson has composed a brilliant rumination on love, lust, friendship, adulthood, and art making. Full of longing, desire, and aching curiosity, this is a novel about running from yourself and finding yourself at the exact same time. Funny, wise, keenly observed, and exuberantly poetic, Headfirst is for anyone who has ever shirked their responsibilities or questioned their life’s choices—in other words, it’s for every single one of us.”—Kimberly King Parsons, author of National Book Award-nominated Black Light and We Were the Universe
Praise for Boys of Alabama:
“Hudson’s writing is magnetic. It’s the Kristen Stewart of prose—chameleon-like, layered, funny and serious and sad, really gay, and so attractive . . . It wrecked me, just like I wanted.”—Them, on Boys of Alabama
“Boys of Alabama brilliantly reinvents the Southern Gothic . . . An absolutely magical novel.”—Leni Zumas, author of Red Clocks
“[Depicts] a brand of Southern-fried masculinity that is immediately recognizable and startlingly fresh. This is an exquisite book.”—Nick White, author of How to Survive a Summer
“A gripping, uncanny, and queer exploration of being a boy in America, told with detail that dazzles and disturbs.”—Michelle Tea, author of Against Memoir
“Genevieve Hudson creates a new American erotics of longing and belonging, flush with want and desire, hope and home, translation and transformation.”—Matt Bell, author of Scrapper
“Hudson goes right to a place where violence comes from—uncomfortably close to desire for magic, God, sex, whatever might actually heal us–and doesn’t turn away.”—Kristin Dombek, author of The Selfishness of Others
“One of the finest—and weirdest!—first novels I’ve read in quite some long time.”—Tom Bissell, author of Apostle and coauthor of The Disaster Artist
“Reminds us that behind so many of America’s most rigid beliefs lies the lonely human heart: twitchy, slippery, alive.”—Mikkel Rosengaard, author of The Invention of Ana
“This novel is a love song to outsiders of all kinds, a queer love story about the ways we find to heal ourselves and each other, and proof that there can be magic amid the burdens of masculinity.”—Melissa Febos, author of The Dry Season
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