Discipline

A delicate, wry, taut, suspenseful reading experience, Discipline captivated me from beginning to end. Larissa Pham is an original, real talent -- Jami Attenberg, author of The Middlesteins Art bleeds into life in Larissa Pham's exhilarating, exquisite book, full of an eerie intelligence and startling compassion. A pitch-perfect novel -- Aysegül Savas, author of The Anthropologists Discipline wrecked me in the best way. To say that it is brilliant is an understatement. This astonishing book changed me; I'm not the same person I was before I read it -- Elaine Hsieh Chou, author of Disorientation The best book I read this year: intensely smart, evocative, and gorgeously written. Not only a gripping and suspenseful revenge story, Discipline is also a novel of ideas. It asks the hardest questions about art and death and the responsibilities we all have to one another. -- Stuart Nadler, author of Rooms for Vanishing Praise for Larissa Pham: 'Her gaze is ceaselessly empathetic, and it is this generosity that binds the reader to her quest for understanding. Even with all the pain of heartbreak... Pham manages to generate sincere hopefulness * Observer * A masterclass in emotional vulnerability... pivots between art and personal narrative with such dexterity that they begin to feel inseparable * Nylon * Combines the thrilling and agonized travails of her young narrator with the lucid and steady eye of a born critic ... A bold and promising debut -- Melissa Febos, author of Body Work Prose with a clarity and crispness that gives the atmosphere of a thriller -- Marlowe Granados