Basu (Asuras) effortlessly submerges a young woman into a psychedelic technopunk dystopia of augmented reality in a short novel that questions the definition of humanity.
Publisher’s Weekly
This is a sometimes challenging but ultimately fascinating return to classic cyberpunk that William Gibson aficionados will love.
Library Journal
The story is about love and technology, and, most urgently, about human connections—their fragilities, their synthetic amplifications, their near-psychedelic peaks, and their cold, brutal absences. It’s a trip and a terrifying pleasure to read.
io9 at Gizmodo
As a portrait, a phenomenology, of the urban self in the 21st century, The City of Folding Faces is laudable and convincing.
John Pistelli
Basu’s novel is brief, sparse, and open, and the openness allows the reader to interpret and engage with the novel at superficial, metaphorical, philosophical, and even spiritual levels.
North of Oxford
Basu’s ability to take what we know of neurodegeneration and traumatic brain injury and reimagine it echoes the early work of Mary Doria Russell.
Lit Hub
Here, she talks about her new book, Indian literary culture, mythology, and the intersections of science and art.
Electric Literature
Poetry: too often it is bad. Let us be thankful, then, for Jayinee Basu
Dazed Digital
Wonderfully surreal, the book touches on questions of reality, consumerism, and society
Geekly Inc
Here she’s interviewed by David Welper, leading up to our release party for the second issue of vitriol, for which she was one of the featured readers.
Quiet Lightning
There’s been more and more South Asian fantasy being published, but selection of fiction by South Asian authors is still relatively thin. That’s why I was so excited to read about The City of Folding Faces.
SyFy Wire
Basu’s ability to simultaneously inhabit the languages of technological advancement, scientific research, and poetic soliloquy in The City of Folding Faces is transporting…I’m astonished by the beauty of it.
Daily Public
She’s still writing and says that the two fields haven’t forked insomuch as they have overlapped. It is entirely possible her next written work will be influenced by her clinical work.
UC Berkeley Extension Voices
The Write Stuff is a series of interview profiles conducted by Litseen where authors give exclusive readings from their work. Jayinee Basu is a writer based in San Francisco.
SF Weekly
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