"Truth is stranger than fiction; this is stranger than both. Yet our tender, prickling, ungainly human condition beautifully shimmers from these stories the more surreal they get, and in a relatable everyday way. A brilliant debut about our curious existence that would have been notable at any time in history, by an author we can expect to celebrate again." —DBC PIERRE, Winner of the Man Booker Prize and author of Vernon God Little

"There's an impish playfulness and a deeply potent blight spreading from each story collected in Rose Keating's marvelously unnerving Oddbody. This superior collection of short fiction revels in the absurdity of human and non-human existence, gleefully celebrates the power of the uncanny, the atrocious and the bizarre... one of the most audacious and thought provoking collections I've ever read." —ERIC LAROCCA, author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

"Oddbody is a compendium of the contemporary female experience, red in tooth and claw. Rose Keating writes as if armed with a diamond blade; her stories are visceral, surreal, and savagely good." —MARY MORRISSY, author of Prosperity Drive

"Ten lurid stories of magic, metamorphosis, and real-world longing...Keating builds a macabre world in which her characters are utterly free even within their various compulsions, constraints, and grotesque circumstances. Compassionate, gross, deeply compelling. A must-read." —Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review