Back in the Land of the Living: A Novel

Crocker’s prose is masterful.

Maisonneuve

Crocker shows that our ways of connecting to one another were already fractured … Perhaps we are only now learning how to really live with each other.

Toronto Star

In part, Back in the Land of the Living is a story about a girl trying to make it in the big city, but within this frame, Crocker also adds another voice to the canon of queer literature about intimate partner abuse, following in the footsteps of Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House and Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other.

Montreal Review of Books

Crocker rewrites the everyday experiences into the literary experience … It is a risky endeavour, referring to the pandemic, when even the mere utterance of the word; pandemic, invokes a superstitious sense of terror … Yet Crocker manages to spotlight this tumultuous time in the not-so-distant past when things seemed to be at a tipping point.”

Montreal Guardian