-Aimee Bender, author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake 

“Bridget is a rare thing — an original writer with a unique voice. Her writing is ironic, satirical, smart, sexy and deeply tender. This is a book Joan Didion will wish she’d written!”

— Chris Abani, author of The Virgin of Flames and Song For Night

“Bridget Hoida has crafted a remarkably fine novel.  The language of this work is fresh, surprising and relentless.  The novel captures California, it captures the culture, it captures this one woman’s life and it captured me.  This is strong stuff from a strong talent.  Hoida’s voice is here to stay.”

-Percival Everett, author of Assumption and Erasure

“In So L.A., Bridget Hoida has crafted that rarest of books: intelligent, gorgeously written—and, best of all, fun. The charming, witty and slightly off-kilter voice of narrator Magdalena de la Cruz brings to mind the writing of Nabokov—but in a distinctly California style: Magdalena is a six-foot blonde rhinestone artist with acrylic nails and silicone breasts living in the heart of Los Angeles. She is, by turns, endearing, frustrating and heart-breaking as she tries to salvage her dissolving marriage in the wake of her brother’s death.  Hoida’s sharp, exquisite prose awed me, and brought me to both laughter and tears.”

-Shawna Yang Ryan, author of Water Ghosts

“Both heartbreaking and hilarious, Bridget Hoida’s novel is a stunning debut. Inventive and deeply poetic, charming and wickedly witty, this is a work of lasting and profound satisfactions.”

-David St. John, author of The Red Leaves of Night