"Morgan Thomas is brilliant. Who else could bring autism, dragons and queerness together with such boldness, joy and intelligence in the most artful sentences and scientific seriousness? The insular world of these characters emphasizes the dangers of an outside that sets traps, but inside is seeking and tender and messy. An inventive and revelatory portrait of a neurodivergent mind—funny, moving, sensual, mysterious, and genius, I have never read anything like Mad Eden." — 'Pemi Aguda, author of Ghostroots

"Mad Eden is unlike anything I’ve read—a novel of staggering invention and fearless intimacy. Morgan Thomas bends time, myth, and science into a story that is dazzling and devastating, tender and unflinching. It’s a book about queer and autistic survival, about care and precarity, about joy insisting on itself in the face of collapse. Sentence by sentence, Mad Eden remakes the world as it tells it. What lingers is not resolution but creation itself: the hum of a book that will not end." —Morgan Talty, author of Night of the Living Rez and Fire Exit

"Mad Eden burrowed into my brain and made me touch the world differently. In an inhospitable time, Morgan Thomas has given us a slippery paradise—with alligators and dragons hiding in its grass, yes, but with the fruits of tenderness and love and joy in easy reach." —Katherine Packert Burke, author of All Us Saints and Still Life

“Bold, inventive, bursting with intelligence and heart. Mad Eden illuminates the lives of queer, neurodivergent, and Southern characters seeking, against all odds, joy in an inhospitable world—while showing the costs of denying others, and oneself, such joy and radical acceptance. In Mad Eden, Morgan Thomas doesn’t shy away from showing how the personal and the political are deeply intertwined. Thomas is one of the most visionary and exciting writers in contemporary fiction today.” —Daphne Palasi Andreades, author of Brown Girls