Finalist, 2018 Lambda Literary Award
Best Books of 2018, Entropy
“Hudson captures the way we feed our obsessions—those metaphorical lion cubs with whom we decide to live—as we do our best to pretend that one day they won’t tear us limb from limb.” —THE STRANGER
“Following desire, Hudson reminds us, can be blissfully life-affirming—it makes you bold, even as it drags you through dangerous places.” — THE ADROIT
“A dazzling, delicate piece of art that brands itself to the reader’s skin, leaving a searing memory and a sense of gratitude for the journey.” — NECESSARY FICTION
“Pretend We Live Here is collection rare and precious as sighting a white wolf–a must read.” —LAMBDA LITERARY
“This might be the closest thing to a perfect book that I’ve read in quite a while.” —THE BIG SMOKE
“Jagged, queer, and nervy, these stories beat with an urgent, potent pulse.” — CHELSEY JOHNSON, author of Stray City
“A terrific collection of stories. There are echoes here of Flannery O’Connor, Barry Hannah, and Denis Johnson, but Genevieve Hudson is her own writer—impressively and gloriously so. Her eye for the clinching detail is unnerving and her sympathies are fascinatingly conflicted. I hope, and suspect, this book will be the start of a long and inspiring career.” —TOM BISSELL, author of The Disaster Artist and Magic Hours
“Full of blood and dust and stars and light, Hudson captures the beauty and horror of the everyday and makes it all seem like magic.” — LEAH DIETERCH, author of Vanishing Twins: A Marriage
“In Pretend We Live Here, characters bleed and breathe with a caustic energy that dares the reader to keep pace as they are taken from the Deep South to Western Europe and back again. Her writing is impossible to forget.” — JING-JING LEE, author of How We Disappeared
“Poetic, twisted, wild, and tender, Genevieve Hudson writes with what some call a burning tongue. On every page, her agile, clashing lines throw off sparks of youth and queer desire. Here is a writer at the beginning of something truly great.” —JON RAYMOND, author of Freebird