Dizz Tate

Mar 2, 2023 | zip06.com | Dizz Tate

Brutes by Dizz Tate This hypnotic, swirling dream of a novel is a great fit for any reader drawn to the beautiful mess of girlhood. A coming-of-age novel set in Falls Landing, Florida, Brutes is memorably lush and atmospheric, graced with a potent air of mystery and a haunting conclusion. Abby, R.J. Julia Booksellers, Madison

Feb 16, 2023 | powells.com | Dizz Tate |Kelsey Ford

This week we’re taking a closer look at Powell’s Pick of the Month Brutes by Dizz Tate. Truly: is there anything more terrifying than a group of young girls, roaming together, expanding and contracting like an anemone? Sixteen, eighteen, twenty-eight limbs between them, all ready to lash out if the world requires them to turn feral. Dizz Tate’s debut, Brutes, released last week, gets to the quick of this.

Feb 14, 2023 | dispatchist.com | Dizz Tate

Two new books — “Brutes,” by Dizz Tate, and “On the Savage Side,” by Tiffany McDaniel — challenge and reshape the way stories about abused and murdered women are told.

Feb 9, 2023 | lithub.com | Dizz Tate

The following is from Dizz Tate's Brutes. Tate grew up in Florida and lives in London, U.K. She has had short stories published in The Stinging Fly, Dazed, No Tokens Journal, Five Dials, 3:AM Magazine, among other publications. She was long-listed for the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award in 2020 and won the Bristol Short Story Prize in 2019.

Feb 2, 2023 | netgalley.co.uk | Dizz Tate

Review by Karen B, Reviewer Last updated on 2 Feb 2023 This coming-of-age story follows a group of homogenous young teenagers, collectively known as the girls, in a period when an older girl they admire goes missing. Has the monster of the lake got her? The story toggles between past and present when the girls have grown up and we learn the fate of each individual.