STAFF PICK AT THE PARIS REVIEW
#1 BEST BOOK OF FALL AT BUZZFEED
GOOP BOOK CLUB PICK
LIT HUB FAVOURITE BOOK
A GLOBE & MAIL AND CBC BOOK OF THE YEAR
TRILLIUM BOOK AWARD FINALIST
NORTHERN LIT AWARD FINALIST
MOST ANTICIPATED
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“A whole-cloth, word-for-word triumph.”
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, Starred Review
“Heartbreaker is a dark star of a book, glittering with mordant humor and astonishing, seductive strangeness and grace. I am a giant fan of Claudia Dey’s wild brain.”
LAUREN GROFF, The Matrix
“I could not put this book down. In turns, hilarious and harrowing, Heartbreaker’s icy exactitude is direct, disturbed and entirely splendid.”
SAMANTHA HUNT, The Seas
“Claudia Dey’s Heartbreaker is one of the strangest, most magical and original books of the year.”
HEATHER O’NEILL for LITHUB
“Disturbed, seductive and thrilling.”
“This is a book like no other. It’s eerie, it's cult-y, it's so very exciting, and I never wanted it to end.”
BUZZFEED Best Books of Fall 2018
“Heartbreaker is a darkly comedic weirdo of a book that pulls the string of nostalgia from one side while unraveling it from the other.”
THE PARIS REVIEW Staff Pick
“A novel that will take hold and not let go... Book club gold.”
GOOP Book Club Pick
“Masterful, beautiful.”
“Heartbreaker makes high and hilarious art from the emotional pop-rocks and glittery junk of a certain way of being young. And vulnerable. Also it has one of the most awesome dogs in literature. A thrillingly original, wholly spellbinding and luminous novel.”
RIVKA GALCHEN, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is A Witch
“Heartbreaker totally bewitched me. I love its outlandishness—its sizzling energy—
the bright, fierce music in every sentence.”
LENI ZUMAS, Red Clocks
“I was kidnapped by this novel. Original, alluring and memorable, Claudia Dey’s Heartbreaker will get under your skin. An electrifying story about buried pasts, dark secrets and dangerous loves that shimmer and sparks.”
IAIN REID, I’m Thinking of Ending Things
“This book is beautifully written, profoundly strange, a perfect balancing act of dark and light. Part thriller, part love story, part coming-of-age novel, it broke my heart and then put it back together again.”
CLAIRE CAMERON, The Bear
“A mashup of Stranger Things and Martha Marcy May Marlene.”