“Mitchell’s prose is crystal clear—there’s no hiding the ball. It’s thoughtful, perceptive, vivid—and can steam up a mirror! This is excellent work, flawlessly executed.”

— Michelle Latiolais, author of She and Widow 

“Mitchell is one of our most astute chroniclers of the way we live now. These diabolically inventive stories, often wickedly funny, vary thrillingly in tonal register and form. They ask all the big questions, including: Are we humans gone awry worth saving? Together, they whisper yes.”

—Maud Casey, author of City of Incurable Women

“These eerie fables of societies gone amok are almost too realistic to bear. Mitchell has written a fitting epitaph for our species: a darkly glittering gem of a book.”

—Dan Chaon, author of One of Us

Delightfully blending literary fiction with speculative genres, the stories in The Church of Divine Electricity somehow manage to feel as though they could take place today. In Emily Mitchell’s created worlds, as in our own, technology bewitches us, especially with its ability to heighten both connections and isolation.