ELIZABETH BRUNDAGE graduated from Hampshire College,
attended NYU film school, was a screenwriting fellow at the
American Film Institute in Los Angeles, and received an MFA as well
as a James Michener Award from the University of Iowa Writers'
Workshop. She has taught at a variety of colleges and universities,
most recently at Skidmore College, where she was visiting
writer-in-residence. She lives near Albany in upstate New York.
www.elizabethbrundage.com
"Frequently shocking and immensely moving.... It was for such
extraordinary books that the term 'literary thriller' was coined."
-The Wall Street Journal
"Ghosts, murder, a terrifying psychotic who seems normal, and
beautiful writing. Loved it." -Stephen King
"This literary thriller's complex narrative involves a cursed
house, an unsolved murder and impeccable writing." -The New York
Times Book Review, Editor's Choice
"A beautifully written treat ... as much a disturbing portrait of
family and town life as it is a provocative mystery."
-Elle
"Superb.... Think a more literary, and feminist, Gone Girl.
As the seemingly perfect marriage at its core reminds us, the most
lethal deceptions are the stories we tell ourselves."
-Vogue
"As terrifyingly unsettling-and as beautiful-as cracking ice over a
raging river. Part murder mystery, part ghost story, All Things
Cease to Appear is also a profound look at how past guilt
informs the present, how what we yearn for is not always what we
get, and how it's not only houses that can be haunted, but people
as well. One of the most ambitious, original and gorgeously written
novels that I've ever read-and been unable to forget." -Caroline
Leavitt, author of Cruel, Beautiful World
"A classic murder mystery [combined] with a gripping psychological
thriller, exploring the complexities of grief,
relationships-romantic, familial and friendly-and small-town life."
-BookPage
"With a storyline that tightens like a constrictor, this is a book
that you won't want to read alone at night." -Kirkus Reviews
(starred review)
"[A] dark, chilling drama." -Entertainment Weekly
"All Things Cease to Appear is a riveting ghost story,
psychological thriller, and literary page turner. . . . At its
heart, this is a story about women's grit and courage, will and
intelligence. It's a powerful and beautiful novel." -Kate
Christensen, author of The Astral
"Exquisitely gut-churning.... Brundage's language is the real draw,
with her vivid portraits of spouses on opposite sides of a brutal
abyss." -Time
"At once high art and a spellbinding thriller, this is a book of
many wonders, including a character as creepily sinister as any
created by Patricia Highsmith." -Beverly Lowry, author of
Harriet Tubman: Imagining a Life
"Insightful, evocative." -People, "Book of the
Week"
"Transcendent . . . Tragedy leaves an indelible mark on both people
and places in Brundage's piercing new novel. Party mystery, part
ghost story, and entirely brilliant." -Library Journal
"Spellbinding." -The Anniston Star
"Slightly Gothic, socially perceptive, and briskly written."
-New York magazine
"[A] dark, chilling drama." -Entertainment Weekly
"Brundage's searing, intricate novel epitomizes the best of the
literary thriller. . . . Succeeding as murder mystery, ghost tale,
family drama, and love story, her novel is both tragic and
transcendent." -Publishers Weekly
"A dynamic portrait of a young woman coming into her own [and] of a
marriage in free fall." -Booklist (starred review)
"I bloody loved this. . . . Beneath the daisies and farmhouses, the
drinks parties and local dramas, something grand, tense and
terrifying is shifting, between men and women, between townies and
newcomers, between adults and children." -Louisa Young, author of
My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You
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