“Strange Water radiates the luscious and mortal beauty of a still life. These small, vibrant images contain vast universes of birdsong, golden cities, storm clouds, and tears that fall into the ocean. Readers will want to treasure this book because in its pages there are marvellous pearls made of words.” – Agustina Bazterrica, author of Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird and Tender Is the Flesh

“Sarah Moses deftly captures the skewed and often menacing reality of contemporary life. Her mini-narratives fly off the page like shards of glass, each a vivid expression of our eternal quest to find a pathway through the murky dreamscape of bewilderment and longing. What Moses aims for is nothing less than what we all want to achieve in our lives: clarity, purpose, meaning, and connection.” – M.A.C. Farrant, author of Jigsaw, One Good Thing, and The Days

“Thanks to science, we know our bodies are 60% water, and now, thanks to Sarah Moses, we know how strange that water is. These wild, surprising, playful stories offer a kaleidoscopic spin, where characters, objects, cultural artifacts, and dream-like scenes intersect and blur. ‘The word is sopping wet,’ Moses writes. ‘One by one, I wring out each of its meanings.’ This wonderful bucket of a book gathers every magical drop.” – Jason Heroux, author of Survivors of the Hive