Books
A LIT HUB MOST ANTICIPATED NOVEL OF 2025
STARRED PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY OF THE STALKER
“Bomer tracks the increasingly threatening behavior of a sociopath in her excellent and shocking latest…As Doughty insinuates his way into the lives and homes of [two] women, the novel enters into genuinely disturbing territory. Bomer is equally adept at rendering Doughty’s warped psychology as she is with injecting dark humor into the proceedings…This is dark and twisted fun.”
“A portrait of an empty and hollow-eyed kid whose only gifts are limitless arrogance and an instinct for predation. Reading it made me feel soiled…The Stalker is somehow mirthless and genuinely hilarious at the same time…Paula Bomer stared down the barrel for this one.”
-Jayson Greene, author of UnWorld
Novels & Story Collections
“Bomer’s novel is incisive in cataloging the consequences of war, and of the restrictive political systems that lead to, or follow from, it. For Eva, condemning the Nazis was easy; acknowledging the shortcomings of communism is less so . . . Tante Eva is a sensitive, startling novel about post-Soviet existence.”
—Foreword Reviews
“Bomer offers her characters no outs—only the creeping sense that they're doomed to swing forever between futile attempts at self-determination.”
—The New York Times Book Review
This is a brave and provocative book about the insidious power of PC. That’s Parental Correctness not Political Correctness...[Bomer’s] wounding analysis of herself and the vicious new mummy tribes she introduces us to make this book an instant classic. ”
- The Guardian
“Reading Baby & Other Stories is like being attacked by a rabid dog—and feeling grateful for it. This is some of the rawest and most urgent writing I can remember encountering.”
—Jonathan Franzen, author of The Corrections
Non-Fiction
MYSTERY AND MORTALITY: ESSAYS ON THE SAD, SHORT GIFT OF LIFE
"It’s to Bomer’s credit that none of her musings are grim. Neither is her literary criticism scholarly in a way that is dry, impersonal or irrelevant. In fact, it’s the opposite. Her essays offer fresh analysis, as well as original pairings and juxtapositions."
- Jen Grow, JMWW