“The Garden renders beautifully the uncanny, haunted space that pregnancy both occupies and creates. Beams’s glancing, needle-prick prose reminds me of Shirley Jackson’s work...I loved this novel.”

—Kelly Link

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“A female/feminist voice for the twenty-first century.”
—Joyce Carol Oates

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“Beams has somehow crafted a tale that feels like both classical ghost story and like a modern (and very timely) scream of female outrage…A masterpiece.”
—elizabeth gilbert

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“Stories as well executed as these are their own reward, but it’s also clear from the capaciousness on display here that Ms. Beams has novels’ worth of worlds inside her.”
—The New York Times

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Clare Beams’s stories appear in Ecotone, Hayden’s Ferry Review, n+1, One Story, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading.   

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