This sharp, funny, howl-of-pain of a novel has much to say about sisterhood, motherhood, friendship and love.
—Marie Claire UK

Full of rich, erotic fantasies…We Were the Universe is dark, funny, and very sad.
—The Daily Mail

We Were the Universe is a kaleidoscopic marvel – beautiful, funny, profoundly moving. The way Kimberly King Parsons writes about love, grief, desire and connection is remarkably vivid, always tender, shimmering with poignant observation. Her eye for detail is pure brilliance. This is a novel you’ll want to read all over again, to see its patterns in a different light. I loved it.
—Rachel Elliott, author of Flamingo, Longlisted for the Women’s Fiction Prize

Kimberly King Parsons sings the lushest, cruelest, kindest, weirdest, darkest and most hilarious songs on paper; I want to hang these sentences in my house and admire them like the interdimensional multisensory illuminated artworks they truly are. We Were the Universe is a tonal masterpiece, a record I want to spin forever, and I feel so lucky that I can return to its deep magic.
—Karen Russell, Pulitzer Prize-finalist author of Swamplandia!

A wrenchingly honest novel, full of dark wit and feral delight, about a new mother navigating the trippy, uncharted wilderness between love and grief.
—Jenny Offill, New York Times-bestselling author of Weather and Dept. of Speculation