'Steinberg shifts backwards and forward in time, just as her prose shifts into a kind of poetry. The result is a glittering, knifelike reflection of despair through the eyes of a young woman, made richer by the fact that it's told in hindsight' - New Yorker 'Otherworldly, and every-other-line sublime, Machine reads like the text messages Laura Palmer might ... Read moresend back from the Black Lodge. It's a timely reminder of why our culture remains haunted by dead girls, and of the different ways we find to drown them' - Bennett Sims 'Her slim narrative of adolescent crisis is as propulsive as it is disorienting, subverting expectations at every turn' - The Atlantic Show Less