Praise for DONNAVILLE:
“Not an allegory but a wild romp of a fantasy story that takes the reader on a journey to the most forbidden recesses of the psyche, and the most hopeful ones… Donna Minkowitz’s debut novel DONNAVILLE invents a whole new way of talking about the internal struggles we all face. … Minkowitz narrates a harrowing personal journey toward wholeness and a state in which no parts of her may be abandoned to self-torture and shame. A very queer, very sexy novel, where the author assumes all genders and many different sexualities, and where riotous sex scenes can be the occasion of important plot points. I’ve long loved Minkowitz’s work. DONNAVILLE is one more reason to be grateful to this fearless author who sheds all skins.”
— Steven Petrow, Washington Post columnist, author of The Joy You Make
“Part anti-prison fable, part gory horror camp, part dyke Goddess gay porn, DONNAVILLE shocks the senses to open the gates between myth and belonging. This is the abusive family narrative turned inside-out, vomiting up the possibility of survival. Tender and grotesque, DONNAVILLE frees the self of its burdens.”
— Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, author of Touching the Art
Praise for GROWING UP GOLEM:
“Brilliant, exciting, startlingly fresh… Donna Minkowitz comes to the conclusion that she must have been her mother’s golem, a manikin formed from clay and garbage and sacred letters, built to fall apart when it fails to serve its maker… She takes a dazzling leap of fancy and then writes a new bridge into being behind her for the rest of us to follow.” — Ellis Avery, author of The Last Nude and The Teahouse Fire
“Rich and wild, dark and funny, as fearless as her legendary journalism and as scary as a fairy tale. A serious writer at the top of her game. I love this book!”
— Terry Bisson, winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards
“Holds nothing back… the same brutal introspection and clever humor [as Ferocious Romance] , but this book is much more personal and sexually explicit … Minkowitz brings a defiant, playful energy to writing about her difficult and dark past. Intelligent but not for the prudish or fainthearted. “
— Kirkus Reviews
“Fierce imagination and compelling prose. Captivating. Growing Up Golem contains all the power of her earlier work with its sharp social and political analysis, but it is written without the cloak.”
— Julie Enszer, Lilith
“Golem, schmolem — Minkowitz has sculpted a wonderful life for herself out of sheer dedication and grit, and her writing is magic. Two goyische maidel thumbs up!!”— Lily Burana, author of I Love a Man in Uniform: A Memoir of Love, War, and Other Battles
Praise for FEROCIOUS ROMANCE:
“Utterly entrancing … Donna Minkowitz introspects herself bare, and then with a breathtakingly fluent language of alternating waggery and sincerity, tells how she incorporated her doubts and certainties into that rarest thing: an authentic self. In this brilliantly funny, wise, joyful book, she achieves the compassion and depth that both the gay and right-wing movements profess to want, and fail to achieve: and she does so with a gentle lightness and forthright courage by which even a die-hard partisan would have to be swayed.” — Andrew Solomon, author, Far from the Tree
“An original, energetic and witty book.… Reveal[s] something meaty about real people with grace, humor, and intelligence.” — Mary Gaitskill, the New York Observer
“Infuriating, insightful, hilarious…. Deserves a wide readership.” — Patrick Califia, author, Public Sex
“Original and provocative.” — Susan Faludi