We the Animals

A heart-rending coming of age novel - intense, poised and pummelling. Almost pitch-perfect in its nerve-exposed vulnerability -- Helen Davies * Sunday Times *
Torres's lyrical treatment of transgression can be shocking... [At] times his prose has the intensity of poetry -- Peter Carty * Independent *
A strobe light of a story, its flash set on slow, producing before our eyes lurid and poetic snapshots... I want more of Torres's haunting, word-torn world * New York Times Book Review *
It's rare to come across a young writer with a voice whose uniqueness, power and resonance are evident from the very first page, or even the very first paragraph... A slender, tightly wound debut novel by a remarkable young talent... Torres should excite us the way that Raymond Carver or Jeffrey Eugenides did * Washington Post *
A searing and sparkling piece of writing that promises great things to come * Esquire *
An exciting and unique narrative voice... his powerful, lyrical prose gives even the darkest of scenes a sheen of brilliance * Stylist *
Delicious pacing [with a] dark sparkle... It takes you to a place you wouldn't think of going to voluntarily, but you'll be glad for the ride * Gay Times *
Oscillating between violence and affection, pathos and humour, the story is enriched by Torres's fresh and ornate prose -- Alex Preston * Observer *
The 19 short chapters are each like a round in a boxing match - intense, poised and pummelling -- Helen Davies * Sunday Times *
A slender but affecting debut novel... We the Animals is the kind of sensitive, carefully wrought autobiographical first novel that may soon be extinct from the mainstream publishing world * New York Times *
A heart-rending fiction debut, about an American boy who grows up and apart from his close-knit family * Sunday Times *
Very effectively evokes the physicality of living together at close quarters through tears, laughter and terrible betrayal -- Alastair Mabbott * Herald *
Extraordinary... offers powerful imagery and sentences that pierce straight through the skin * Dundee University Review of the Arts *