“Through the infinite layers of experience, Brilliant grabs the reader by our shoulders.”
Read an interview with Brielle Brilliant in Hooligan Mag
“The writing zips between inner memory and outer world with such speed that the boundary between the two begins to melt away … To read The Spud is to find yourself at the center of a constellation of possibilities rather facing down a single hard, cool reality … Brilliant is masterful at conjuring this experience, playing and tinkering with the point at which narrative breaks down into naked, exposed words without ever letting them dissolve into chaos.”
Read a review of The Spud in Cleveland Review of Books
“Startling and haunting, an unforgettable debut.”
Check out Brielle Brilliant’s notes & music playlist for The Spud on Largehearted Boy