Where Did You Sleep Last Night

Lynn Crosbie is what a great writer should be: pissed off, bereft, misunderstood, impolite, funny, and in love with the madness of the world. * Miriam Toews, author of All My Puny Sorrows *
Where Did You Sleep Last Night is terrifying and beautiful. It is a thrift store jam packed with once loved, tattered, and gorgeous images. Crosbie is as mad as Rimbaud, as sweet as Keats, and as debauched as Courtney Love. Kurt Cobain would have adored her. * Heather O’Neill, author of The Girl Who Was Saturday Night *
Lynn Crosbie’s Where Did You Sleep Last Night is a brilliant portrait of romance, rages, passionate reunions, the emptiness of fame and the devastating losses that afflict two doomed rock stars locked in a heart-shaped box. Every sentence is poetry. I predict this book will, like Kurt Cobain, develop its own cult following. * Jowita Bydlowska, author of Drunk Mom *
The book’s most affecting passages are the ones where Evelyn’s reverence for Celine bumps up against her desire to be a rock star in her own right…the sense of being caught in thrall to a self-destructive genius and trying to match him, note for note and mistake for mistake, is resonant. -- Adam Nayman * Quill & Quire *
Bold, kaleidoscopic, full of absurd black humour, Lynn Crosbie’s new novel Where Did You Sleep Last Night is quite unlike anything else that’s been published recently...It is pop and avant-garde, full of fireworks and heartbreak. -- Elizabeth Renzetti * The Globe and Mail *
eminently worthy of our attention…restless, funny and artfully crazed -- Brett Josef Grubisic * Macleans *
If you were a teenager in the 1990s, Where Did You Sleep Last Night by Lynn Crosbie is a must read * London Public Library Blog *
I found myself alternately charmed and gutted… Lynn Crosbie has produced a grunge elegy -- Patricia Dawn Robertson * Toronto Star *
At its heart, this is a beautiful and dead-earnest book about the awfully true desire to bring our long-lost loved ones—including the distant ones that hang on our walls as posters—back to life…Crosbie is one of the boldest and most consistently daring Canadian writers around. -- Angelo Muredda * Torontoist *
Author Lynn Crosbie seems to paint the words on the page…This truly is a wonderful book * The Bookshelf Blog *
Original and imaginative, filled with wonderfully witty wordplay and plenty of pop culture references… fan fiction for smarty pants. * THIS Magazine *
The language is darkly poetic, sad yet full of passion -- Erin Lebar * Winnipeg Free Press *
The intensity of Crosbie's writing will sweep you up – it's manic, sincere, explicit, and hilarious. If you ever had a teenage crush, this is its fever dream equivalent, and it's not to be missed. -- Grace O’Connell * W Dish *
Deliciously bizarre, unapologetically brash, Lynn Crosbie's Where Did You Sleep Last Night is shaping up to be one of the great reads of 2015 * Open Book *
a literary wild ride through the grunge rock scene * CBC Homerun *
Juxtaposed with Crosbie’s exquisite poetic style and a sense of humour both intelligent and delightfully bizarre, misery is transformed into something beautiful, while still retaining the essential sadness it was born of. * Rover Arts *
just open to any page and find a paragraph that could stand alone as a devastatingly beautiful poem. This woman can write. -- Susan G. Cole * NOW Magazine *
Crosbie makes this impossibility of reincarnation seem emotionally credible, with her book reading in places like a singular mash-up of fan fiction and magic realism. -- John Semley * Globe and Mail *