Sentence

Named one of Variety’s “10 Storytellers To Watch,” MatthewBaker is the author of the story collections Why Visit America and HybridCreatures and the children’s novel Key Of X, originally published asIf You Find This. Digital experiments include the temporal fiction“Ephemeral,” the interlinked novel Untold, the randomized novel Verses,and the intentionally posthumous Afterthought, along with the cyber zineCode Lit.

“I was left in awe.”— Tiana Clark, author of I Can’t Talk About The Trees Without The Blood“This is a perfect book.”— Lydia Conklin, author of Rainbow Rainbow“There’s a moment in The Sentence—that I wouldn’tdare spoil—when the reader’s commitment to this literary challenge is rewardedwith the sensation of floating away on a cloud. It is sublime.”— Jac Schaeffer, writer and creator of WandaVision“In The Sentence, Matthew Baker has once again rewired my brain… Baker’swork evokes the thrill of discovery in Choose Your Own Adventure books,immersive theater, and Calvino’s hidden architectures.”— Simon Han, author of Nights When Nothing Happened“Matthew Baker’s writing can only be described in the many yets itcreates: humorous yet disturbing, gripping yet patient, timely yet timeless. InThe Sentence, Baker offers a precise, visionary story of survival andcommunity told in the form of a sentence diagram. On its surface a dystopiancautionary tale, this novella is a startling reflection on language, trust, anddesperation in the face of fascism. This is Baker’s most exciting work yet.”— Isle McElroy, author of The Atmospherians and People Collide“The Sentence is a captivating magic trick… Lovers of Raymond Queneau’s Exercisesin Style and Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl and Julio Cortázar’s Hopscotchwill find themselves relieved to discover that rampant, expansive, and daringexperimentalism is alive and well in the work of Matthew Baker.”— Rita Bullwinkel, author of Headshot and Belly Up“A beautiful tribute.”— Gabriel Mascaro, writer and director of Divine Love“A knife-edge thriller, a crystalline schematic, and apiercing character study... Prepare to be changed.”— Sam Ross, author of Company“Anovel that is as inventive as it is incisive… This is a book that can beconsumed one sitting, but that will stick with a reader long after its lastclause.”— Allegra Hyde, author of Eleutheria and The LastCatastrophe“Matthew Baker’s The Sentence is a masterful and deviously elegantdisplay of the choices that are made in constructing a work of art and howthese choices reveal the construction of consciousness in systems that can bothentrap and liberate us, linguistically, interpersonally, politically. This bookis a pleasure and an accomplishment, one that I plan on marveling at andenjoying again and again.”— Mary South, author of You Will Never Be Forgotten“Never before have I felt so powerfully the drama of syntax. This book is amarvel… yet another thrilling innovation from the mad laboratory of MatthewBaker.”— Chris Bachelder, author of The Throwback Special“The most ingenious piece of writing I’ve ever read.”— Zoé Wittock, writer and director of Jumbo "Baker's mind is thrilling... TheSentence is a book of astonishing invention."— Claire Luchette, author of Agatha Of LittleNeon