“Despite its artful deep down thoughtful seriousness Air Carnation is feather-light in touch and probably the funniest book you will read this year. … the book is a hybrid, a true original crammed full of life as you have never yet seen it.” —Friday Reads Pick at All Lit Up 

“Madeleine Thien says that she likes to think of “Home” as a verb, something to be continually re-created. This is just the kind of journey Air Carnation takes us on, the joyous and uncertain and occasionally bittersweet process of creating and recreating a place that can fit it all—big enough to contain a world of dreams and plans and loves and letters, unsent but not lost. ” —Broken Pencil

“The consistent voice keeps the book grounded, making it a smooth read the whole way through. Different periods of the author/character’s life, different places in which they find themselves, different loves, are bound together by the narrative’s dreamy tone and sensual writing.” —Publishers Weekly

“Air Carnation is a captivating journey through human growth and the sense of self…” —The Navigator

“Funny, poignant and absorbing.” —Geist Magazine

“Muro’s work is one of staggering possibilities, with Air Carnation at the forefront of a style of art where the passionate is activated. By revealing her own bad habits and infatuations, Muro breaches the division between the individual and the collective. A shocking, hilarious, and heart-wrenching work, Air Carnation constructs a canon of affection.” —Nomadic Press

“Air Carnation is lyrical and sublime.” —Atticus Review