Politics & the English Language

Amphibian reviewed in PW, Foreword and The Financial Times

A nice set of reviews for Tyler Wetherall’s Amphibian:

“[A] moving debut….Wetherall’s authentic coming-of-age story taps into the emotional intensity of girlhood and makes palpable her protagonists’ aching desire to lose their innocence. Readers will be eager to see what Wetherall does next.”—Publishers Weekly

“Ovid’s myth-telling also finds its way into Tyler Wetherall’s Amphibian, a gripping study of adolescent self-discovery…Wetherall evokes the psychological pressures of teenage friendships but also their fleeting highs, in a cooly observed portrait of the intense period when influence by peers easily trumps parental control.”—Financial Times

“Dark and devastating, Amphibian is a coming-of-age novel about the dangers and pleasures of impending adulthood.”—Foreword