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Critical Praise

"You may think you’ve decided already about a child’s ordeal with a sexual predator, but under Margaux Fragoso’s command, you will consider the richest depths of experience, terrible, bright, and beautiful. Fragoso writes with unguarded grace and provides a voice --- real and haunting --- for those children, everywhere among us, who are deprived of theirs."

—Susanna Sonnenberg, author of Her Last Death

"Tiger, Tiger is stunning, in all the possible manifestations of that word."

—Nick Flynn, author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

"Tiger, Tiger will start a thousand conversations. Margaux Fragoso achieves the unthinkable with empathic clarity: she humanizes a pedophile. In doing so, she makes his crime unimaginably more frightening. Her portrayal of their relationship is shocking, revelatory, and fearless. As the story of a victim, it is gripping; as a work of literature, it’s a triumph."

—Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones