Spite

A masterclass in incisive prose. Rich with unexpected turns-of-phrase and deadpan meditations French Turn waltzes through parties relationships and quiet betrayals with a cutting eye. Thoughts we've never had the nerve to say aloud age-old judgments we harbor toward ourselves and each other-Chapman guides us through the weeds of the human psyche with wit wryness and grace.​- Eliza Gilbert poet​/Anjeli Chapman's writing feels like cracking open a fortune cookie: imbued with the sacrality of having stumbled upon a treasure and the spectrality of words that stick trailing behind you in their haunting magnetism.​- Lydia Maria Makrides actor (Netflix's DARK)