“Every new novel by Jen Craig is cause for celebration. They are a reminder that literature is still being written in the English language. In Wall, her brilliant third novel, Jen Craig deepens her proliferative style of self-examination as her narrator tries to contend with that most heart-wrenching of questions: how to dispose of your parents’ belongings after they die?”

—MAURO JAVIER CÁRDENAS, author of Aphasia (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020)

“In Jen Craig’s astonishing prose, language turns on itself and its users, paradoxically bringing us closer to the very things that resist description. As Wall’s artist narrator sifts and sorts through layers of inherited rubbish, provisional arguments, and unreliable artifice—trying to find the needle in the haystack as well as, at all costs, avoid it—we are so completely drawn into her language and her patterns of thought that we begin to wonder whether the gap between art and life is ever a gap at all.”

—EMILY HALL, author of The Longcut (Dalkey Archive Press, 2022)