Sea, Poison

Caren Beilin was born in Philadelphia in 1983. She is the author of the novel Revenge of the Scapegoat, which won the Vermont Book Award for Fiction. Her other books are Blackfishing the IUD, Spain, The University of Pennsylvania, and Americans, Guests, or Us. Sea, Poison is her most recent novel. She lives in Cleveland and Philadelphia and teaches at Case Western Reserve University.

‘Exhilarating… this rewarding and uncompromising novel is distinguished by its deliriously wild writing. It’s impossible not to be swept up in Beilin’s wake.’ Publisher’s Weekly (starred)

'No-one is doing it like Caren Beilin' Daisy Lafarge

‘Caren Beilin is one of the most bizarre and fearless writers of her generation’ Catherine Lacey

‘I was instantly won over by Beilin’s writing – so funny and serious and playful. Her books have the natural authority of those artworks that are strictly, rigorously themselves’ Sheila Heti

‘An absurdist masterpiece. Nothing, just nothing, is as wild, outrageous and free as Sea, Poison’ Amina Cain

'Beilin, wizard that she is, manages to make you laugh even at the darkest of scenarios.' LitHub

'A deeply weird read - unsettling and funny in turn' Frieze