Bad Nature

' Disarmingly dark and hilarious ... I found Hester an addictively readable narrator: shrewd, catty and vengeful.'

' Disarmingly dark and hilarious ... I found Hester an addictively readable narrator: shrewd, catty and vengeful.'

'Dark, funny, and completely unhinged, with moments of brutal tenderness.'

'Dark, aloof, disciplined – this novel is reminiscent of the best of Ottessa Moshfegh or Emma Cline.'

'Raw, intense, and absolutely mesmerising .'

'A rare gift; audacious, insane'

'So self-assured, so piercing. Unflinching and darkly funny , Bad Nature is a staggering debut'

'Savage and savvy... Bad Nature is one hell of a trip'

'If you like your humour with a hefty dose of nihilism, this one's for you'

'Ariel Courage's debut is a fork jabbed in the electric socket of America... akin to Bret Easton Ellis' "American Psycho"... It's deeply impressive, at times uncomfortable.'

Funny and moving, Bad Nature is a road-trip novel for the here and now, intent on mapping a way moving forward even when the end might seem to be nigh

Ariel Courage is a graduate of the Brooklyn College MFA program, where she was editor-in-chief of The Brooklyn Review. She's currently an assistant fiction editor at AGNI Magazine. Her short work has appeared in Guernica, The New Limestone Review, and Works Progress, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She was also a 2019 Kimmel Harding Nelson resident.