Belcourt is one of the finest and most sublime writers at work today. This book is a feat of beauty and compression, every sentence reinventing the reader. It's like entering a quiet room or a secret lake. It's about our coexistence with lovers, kin, enemies, but also our coexistence with desire, solitude, and an intelligence that in itself is a form of hunger–language as solace, language as light. Belcourt is the rare writer who composes from, to, and because of the soul. It's been some time since I loved a book so deeply.–Claudia Dey, author of Daughter