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“It is at this meeting of bodies that a love story unfolds. And like all love stories, this one is not tidy, but beautiful.” –BELIEVER

“Hudson writes tenderly about cultural displacement, toxic masculinity, and friendship. This complex tale achieves a startling variation on the theme of teenage rebellion.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

“A magical, deeply felt novel that breathes new life into an old genre.”—KIRKUS

I really love this book.” —MICHELLE TEA, author of Against Memoir

“Hudson’s prose is perfect and I will remember her Boys of Alabama for a long, long time.”—MELISSA FEBOS, author of Abandon Me

“A glinting, dark beauty. An incantation.”—T KIRA MADDEN, author of Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls

“Boys of Alabama brilliantly reinvents the Southern Gothic…. An absolutely magical novel.”—LENI ZUMAS, author of Red Clocks

“Genevieve Hudson mixes magic and faith, small-town politics and high-school mayhem, to depict a brand of Southern-fried masculinity that is immediately recognizable and startlingly fresh. An exquisite book. ”—NICK WHITE, author of Sweet & Low

“Hudson is a tremendous writer and she is on the rise.”—KRISTEN ARNETT, author of Mostly Dead Things

“This novel is a spellbinding exploration of what it means to be a stranger in a strange place.”—KIMBERLY KING PARSONS, author of Black Light

“Genevieve Hudson creates a new American erotics of longing and belonging, flush with want and desire, hope and home, translation and transformation. A fantastic debut by one of my favorite new writers.”—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. A gorgeous, smart debut from an uncannily talented writer.”—KRISTIN DOMBEK, author of The Selfishness of Others

Boys of Alabama 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