Nerve Damage
Heady, harrowing and darkly funny ... There is an appropriately claustrophobic quality to Nerve Damage ... And Stinson’s chameleon-like ability to shift without warning between quippy text-speak and breathtaking, lyrical passages heightens the book’s overall jitteriness ... Beneath the novel’s acerbic, madcap humor is a sobering narrative about the emotional cost of surviving abuse.
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A sharply-written character study ... Starts out sprinting, overflowing with humor and paranoia ... The prose is clever ... Stinson’s debut is a darkly funny exploration of a traumatized mind and the arduous path toward healing ... May offer readers new neural pathways, which is all that a great work of fiction can ask to do.
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Dark and often funny ... Shot through with acerbic wit, this is both unsettling and un-put-downable.
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