Reviews
“One of the most unusual pieces of fiction I’ve ever seen. I read it non-stop in 4 ½ hours; couldn’t put it down.
Comic and horrifying, sadistic and hilarious, tragic and funny all at the same time. . . .I never read anything quite like this. It’s as if the Marquis de Sade got loose again with his funny bone banging at our front door.” —Liz Smith, syndicated column
“Chemical Pink is a dazzling first novel–entirely original, dizzyingly controlled, all ice-cool momentum on the surface and all shock below.” —Joan Didion
“Chemical Pink is a compelling novel that explores a dark and troubling world.
I was fascinated — and occasionally repelled — by this rarefied subculture that Arnoldi so skillfully leads us into.
She is a talented writer with a sharp, distinctive voice.” —Carrie Fisher
“It is difficult these days to shock and beguile with a kind of aggressive innocence, but Miss Arnoldi has in this book. It is disturbingly funny and utterly unflinching.” —Susanna Moore, author of In the Cut