A Bestiary is a work of great subtlety, precision, in¬telligence, daring, and emotive keenness. It seems completely contemporary (by which I mean that it is unlike anything I've read and that it makes me want to change my own writerly procedures). With head¬long, reckless, improvisatory gestures, Lily Hoang prompts us to rethink what literature today can dare to aspire to. Her intellectually magnanimous book's position on the threshold between recognizable 'lit¬erature' and some other vanguard form of perfor¬mance/utterance made me feel happy and stimulated and dizzy (in a rapturous way) while I was reading it." --Wayne Koestenbaum
"Rarely have I come across tenderness, venom, and fire held so intimately, so exquisitely, as in Lily Hoang's A Bestiary. This book would be impressive enough as a collection of finely-forged fragments, but as it weaves itself into an even more impressive whole, my hat came off. Lily Hoang writes like she has nothing to lose and everything at stake." --Maggie Nelson
"The most perfect use of fragmentation, myth, lan¬guage, fairytale, and terrible beauty that I have ever seen in my life. I'm swooning. My faith in what writ¬ing can be has been restored." --Lidia Yuknavitch