“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

“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

“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

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

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

"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

"Funny, poignant and absorbing." —Geist Magazine