Attentive to the writing life as both vocation and burden Mom Camp traces reading and writing under pressurefalse starts subtle recalibrations and moments of personal growth that unfold quietly across social life family bonds friendships marriage and sex I read a book by a woman who knows something will happen to her one day and look it does She says she let herself happen In this debut Vronique Darwin asks what it means to narrate a life what it costs to hold competing selves at once and how writing itself takes shape through the slow intimate work of becoming A debut of patience and emotional precisionSheungKing author of Batshit Seven

Step inside the world of Mom Camp a place both startlingly familiar and uncannily strange Vronique Darwins debut is confident and perceptive about the lives women lead or perhaps imagine they do This is a charming inventive and funny collection that explores the infinite complexities of motherhood sisterhood and female identityAlix Ohlin author of We Want What We Want

Vronique Darwins Mom Camp is a generous exploration of womanhood in its many forms Its storiesabout everything from deep platonic friendships to the intricacies of parenting with a partnerare deeply strange well observed and often laughoutloud funny A remarkable debut from a writer to watchGabrielle Drolet author of Look Ma No Hands

Vronique Darwins kaleidoscopic debut collection of stories shimmers with tenderness and comic grace With cleareyed precision and a taste for the absurd dressed up in plain clothes Mom Camps dynamic cast of female leads bubble over with funny earnest questions about what it means to live each day in search of ones truest self Part fantasy dollhouse part summer camp romp part expansive blackbox theatre experimentDarwin has created here something deeply courageous and loving These stories are wiser than they knowJacquelyn ZongLi Ross author of The Longest Way to Eat a Melon

With playfulness and sparkling wit Mom Camp stages investigations into identity and intimacy In these stories women gatherat camp at a monastery retreat in an art classto parse who they are and where they belong These are fictions of containment and eruption where labels miss the mark narratives grow holes and forms are made to be broken In this confident debut Vronique Darwin locates magic in the messy particulars of existence Mom Camp is a work of keen perception and vitalityMarisa Grizenko author of the Plain Pleasures newsletter