“A prescient and absurdist office drama that is equal parts hilarious and haunting. Reading this book felt like looking at melted glass.”—Rita Bullwinkel, author, Headshot

“The Extremities! is a peculiar and perfect novel. Eerie, maddening, and sometimes even funny, Kimmey’s novel is art for the fearful present, humming a note of dread that feels both hauntingly familiar and completely new.”—Lydia Kiesling, author, Mobility

“Samantha Kimmey’s The Extremities! is a slow-burn of a disaster novel where a local reporter navigates her anti-tech, anti-tourist, back-to-nature boyfriend, the increased fires in the dry and heavily forested area nearby, an undiagnosed nerve pain disorder that confounds all comers, a bizarre dictation program and the even more bizarre box that reads her thoughts, administered by her boyfriend’s friend Lee, whose rich landlords have begun to buy up more and more land; in fact, many shadowy figures seem to be buying up more and more land, the story becomes a short of Pynchonian conspiracy met by a person who, like every last one of us, is just not equipped to deal with that kind of shit. It is a story about the things we carry with us and the things that will bury us; it is about everyone asking us what we ask of the world and we simply cannot seem to find the words. You’ll get all the answers you were looking for. What happens next is up to you.”—Sasha Fletcher, author, Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World