"Starkly beautiful and infinitely true. Disgust is a deep and brilliant gaze into all it truly means to feel, to be human, to love."

-Jacqueline Woodson, Red to the Bone

"In this condensed, profound contemplation of disgust, Stephanie Grant traces the complexity and fearfulness of intergenerational conflict and touches on the transmissibility (or not) of mental illness. Her meditations read like prose poems, each economically summoning another intricacy of her subject. She moves with unusual grace between the universal and the highly specific, revealing startling truths about love and fear and anger and pain and redemption."

- Andrew Solomon, Far and Away, The Noonday Demon

"A lyrical and searching examination of our most human selves."

-Richard Sha, Imagination and Science in Romanticism

"In her forthcoming collection, ON DISGUST, noted novelist Stephanie Grant (THE PASSION OF ALICE, THE MAP OF IRELAND) shows her skills as a writer of creative non-fiction. Part psychoanalytical commentary on the forms and manifestations of the disgust impulse, part personal essay, what is brilliant about the work is exactly what makes it so unsettling, as Grant traverses arenas that range from social scientists' engagement with the three domains of disgust -- pathogenic, sexual, and moral--to 'a man who will not kiss, ' to her own mother's disgust response to homosexuality. Throughout, the very memorable often intersects with the revolting-revulsion as departure, revolt--and yet Grant shows us even lovingly and with cheerful curiosity that what triggers one's disgust is often associated with one's own fears and wounds, one's own histories genetic and personal."

-David Keplinger, The World to Come