BEAUTYLAND

Spring 2024

The author wishes to thank those who continue to take a chance on her work.

The Boston Globe, review by Michael Schaub

The New York Times, Arts Section, review by Alexandra Jacobs

Chicago Review of Books, review by Shayne Terry

New York Magazine, The approval matrix

Recommended Reading, Beautyland Excerpt with introduction by Thomas Morris 

Kirkus, starred review, “A heartbreaking work that staggers with both truth and beauty.” 

Publisher’s Weekly, starred review, “Bertino nimbly portrays her protagonist’s alienhood as both metaphor and reality. The results are divine.”

Booklist, starred review, “It’s like fiction was invented for Adina and her tale.”

The Brooklyn Rail, review by Madison Ford, “[With] Beautyland Bertino accomplishes what certain acclaimed novels bewilder us with: the ability to encapsulate an entire life within a few hundred pages.”

BOMB Magazine, review by Hilary Leichter, “From this gorgeous data of existence, Bertino taps into a particular nostalgic awe familiar to a generation of kids raised on Carl Sagan and inflatable lunchroom planetariums.”

PARAKEET, selected

The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice 

The New York Times, review, “Disquieting and darkly comic and vulnerable and true”

The New York Times, profile, 4 Writers to Watch