'This first novel is not like anything you or I have ever read ... You can't help loving this novel' Jaimy Gordon, author of Lord of Misrule. 'This amazing debut spills over with love but is still absolutely unflinching and real ... she's really that kind of fresh new voice people talk about' Aimee Bender, author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake. 'Hassman's wildly inventive prose explodes off the page' Heather O'Neill, author of Lullabies for Little Criminals.

Tupelo Hassman graduated from Columbia's MFA programme. Her writing has been published in The Portland Review Literary Journal, Paper Street Press, Tantalum, We Still Like and Zyzzyva, and by Invisible City Audio Tours. Girlchild is her first novel.