My Works
Not The End of the World
“[Stowe’s] writing is meticulously controlled, by turns funny and piercing; her imagination, nimble yet bizarre. Not the End of the World is an authoritative and dextrous debut.”
“Original and emphatically contemporary…”
“A tour de force with much to commend it."
“Spurred by the wonderfully quirky voice of Maggie Pittsfield, Not the End of the World possesses undeniable power. It’s hard to forget this lively, intelligent girl in danger of losing faith in herself…”
The Shadow of Desire
“Packing her slate-gray wit like a velvet-covered blackjack, Ginger Moore is the kind of frail-tough modern woman who haunts the streets of urban America… The Shadow of Desire has a focus of concentration that grants it both literary authority and passionate momentum.”
“Brittle and sharp, poignant and tough-minded, a balancing act that takes a breathtaking aesthetic risk.”
“Four years after her searing first novel, Stowe weighs in with a sharp and ultimately moving tale of a family and its buried psychological sins and unaddressed tragedies.”
“Utterly convincing and unfailingly intelligent.”
One Good Thing
“Stowe’s plot is screwball, her characters resoundingly real.”
“A clever thriller that carefully treads the line between tragedy and comedy.”
“Gripping and intriguing as well as a comic pleasure... Stowe’s voice, witty and perceptive, is extremely free. Her snappy writing can be poignant and funny… One Good Thing is a rarity: extremely easy to read, thought-provoking, analytical and comic. And one you’ll want to return to.”
“Feckless Harry, writing his novel in a Manhattan tenement, looks up to see a body plummet past the window. Cue a series of lies, unlucky coincidences and misunderstandings. Stowe’s blackly comic novel zips along.”