
Comfort Me With Apples is a darkly elegant fairytale-horror story that will haunt you in the best ways. " - Laura Penny "No one can move from sweet whimsy to bone-deep dread with the deftness of Catherynne M. The Candide of our age." -award-winning author Ken Liu on The Past Is Red "Valente's writing DNA is full of fable, fairy tale and myth drawn from deep wells worldwide." - New York Times on The Bread We Eat in Dreams "Valente gorgeous way with words and impressive genre flexibility as she moves from science fiction to fairy tale to comedic horror with her singular linguistic flair." - Booklist on The Future is Blue "A lush and furious fairytale. The Candide of our age."- award-winning author Ken Liu on The Past Is Red "Valente's writing DNA is full of fable, fairy tale and myth drawn from deep wells worldwide." - New York Times on The Bread We Eat in Dreams "Valente gorgeous way with words and impressive genre flexibility as she moves from science fiction to fairy tale to comedic horror with her singular linguistic flair." - Booklist on The Future is Blue, "A gorgeous, funny, melancholy, splendid romp through a post-apocalyptic wonderland in which hope and despair are indistinguishable, and the human spirit burns with the joy and rage of a thousand suns.

"A gorgeous, funny, melancholy, splendid romp through a post-apocalyptic wonderland in which hope and despair are indistinguishable, and the human spirit burns with the joy and rage of a thousand suns.
