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Praise for Shut Up, I Love You, I’ll Call You Tomorrow
“Wild and heartfelt … forms a richly textured portrait of a specific cultural moment … Shut Up embodies something about the creativity and generosity of youth—the risk-taking as much as the forgiveness.”
—Chicago Reader
"[An] early 2020s time capsule.”
—Chicago Sun-Times
“This captivating collection of character studies doubles as a portrait of community as a living, breathing thing. As refreshing as an ice-cold beer, and well worth savoring.”
—Kirkus (starred review)
“Where casts of lushly described, hard-partying outsiders self-destruct during nights that feel as exciting as they are dangerous … [Shut Up, I Love You] announces a talented young writer who crafts stories with a vivid sense of time and place, filled with recognizable conversations and sly humor, punctuated by a willingness to stare at the abyss.”
—Defector
“[An] impressive debut … The complex dynamics and conversational tone of the stories will keep readers invested in this true-to-life group of women … Timely and deftly written, this collection is a winner.”
—Library Journal (starred review)
“Magnetic, tender as hell, and cut with half-mad humor."
—Ez Pence, Seminary Co-op Bookstores (Chicago, IL)
"Bighearted … the teeming cast and colorful character work lend this book its charm.”
—Publishers Weekly
"Kinetic, funny, sexy, heartbreaking, frank, and illuminating."
—Booklist
"I sat down with a beer and devoured this in one sitting."
—Kristen Arnett, New York Times-bestselling author of Stop Me If You've Heard This One
"So real you can practically smell the cigarettes."
—Matt Burris, Magic City Books (Tulsa, OK)
"Immersive and intimate ... follow[s] the coolest and saddest trans party girls finding home and community with each other.”
—Zak Caudill, City Lit Books (Chicago, IL)
“Laugh-out-loud funny and profoundly of-the-moment … Every detail sings.”
—Who Even Reads
“A beautiful illustration of the complexity of friendship, love, and community; it portrays the sadness and the frustration of living but more importantly the light and hope that shine through with the help of friends.”
—Lex Newman, Myopic Books (Chicago, IL)
"Like catching up on gossip about a friend of a friend ... laugh out loud funny."
—Ren Dean, Skunk Cabbage Books (Chicago, IL)
"Like a glorious, hazy lost weekend where plot is gleaned from snippets of overheard conversations and characters crystalize slowly through luminous encounters as you stumble, a little buzzed, from room to room, story to story."
—Shualee Cook, Women and Children First (Chicago, IL)
“What a beautiful ode to staying alive."
—Chloë Jackson, The Understudy Coffee and Books (Chicago, IL)
"I already miss every single one of these characters like they were friends of mine who just stepped out of the room.”
—Ramona Flores, White Whale Bookstore (Pittsburgh, PA)
"This book should be read in an afternoon, and then again the next day.”
—Charlie Jones, A Room of One’s Own (Madison, WI)
"Like a breathless night out at a dive bar with your best friends, your lovers, your best friend's lovers, your ex-lover's best friends, your ex-lovers/ex-friends... I inhaled this book and its compact sprawl the way you get engrossed in drunken overlapping chatter."
—Natalie Marlin, Moon Palace Books (Minneapolis, MN)
"Angsty, propulsive, funny, fresh, Sloane's slim collection is the literary love child of Michelle Tea and Red Jordan Arobateau."
—Kris Kleindienst, Left Bank Books (St. Louis, MO)
"An electric collection that is all sharp elbows, quick wits, and beating hearts."
—Keith Mosman, Powell's Books (Portland, OR)
“If I go missing, don’t worry—I’m just at a cabin in the woods working on a rack of light beer and re-reading Sloane Murphy.”
—Callie Winter, Elliott Bay Books (Seattle, WA)
"Murphy's characters felt so real and were so relatable and cool I wanted to have a beer and a cig with them."
—Mag Mitts, Alienated Majesty Books (Austin, TX)
"Sloane Murphy shows why fun is fun, honesty hurts, and friendships are heartbreak."
—Alice Stoehr, author of Again, Harder
“Electric with honesty and yearning.”
—Sawyer Lovett, author of Shampoo Unicorn
"I read the collection in one sitting and closed the book feeling the way one does on the way home from a really great party—full of gossip and flashes of poignancy, with the bittersweet nostalgia for a time that has only just passed and may never come again."
—E.R. Anderson, Charis Books (Decatur, GA)
"Tales of such, of people being messy and the messiness of people, are not always good. Sometimes they are monotonous and rote. Then there are excellent short story collections such as this one, and you are reminded that messiness can yet be a sort of art."
—Brad Johnson, East Bay Booksellers (Oakland, CA)
"Shut up and read this."
—Orion Enceladus, The Legendarium (Salt Lake City, UT)
"Smart and funny and brutal and complicated... a truly beautiful exploration of queer and trans life through the interconnected stories of trans women with big feelings, big dreams, and even bigger personalities."
—Kaitlyn Mahoney, Under the Umbrella Bookstore (Salt Lake City, UT)
"While there are plenty of books out there about messy trans and queer people, I’m hard pressed to find a collection of stories that delivers the mess in all of its complexity and humanity, colored by so many poignant moments of deep self-awareness."
—Jules Wernersbach, Hive Mind Books (Brooklyn, NY)
Product Details
Publication Date: Nov 10, 2026
ISBN: 9781964322155
Page Count: 120
