Tyler Wetherall is a writer and editor based in New York.
Her first novel, Amphibian, is forthcoming in August, 2024.
“… brims with sex and violence and threat, and moves to a crescendo of strange and magical beauty.”
—Rebecca stott
Sissy is used to being on the outside. The new girl in her West Country school, she recently arrived with her troubled mother, prone to letting Sissy fend for herself.
But from the day Sissy fights a boy in front of Tegan, she's no longer alone. Bonded by violence, they grow so close they feel like one being: wrapped around each other in bed at sleepovers, sending photographs to men they meet online, and scaring each other with reports of the girls being snatched at night in their town.
Over the course of the school year, they find themselves on the threshold of girlhood, with threats gathering thick and fast around them. And as their make-believe worlds bleed into their daily lives, Sissy feels herself transforming into something strange and terrifying.
Amphibian is atender, haunting coming-of-age debut about desire, precocity and the intensity of early friendships that have the power to upend our lives.
“Tyler Wetherall is a fine writer and a great storyteller. Her debut novel is unlike anything else I have read. As a tale of childhood friendship, it brims with sex and violence and threat, and moves to a crescendo of strange and magical beauty. I recognised the strangeness of my own girlhood in it, and I am sure that other readers will do the same. Amphibian will stay with me for a long time. Tyler's art is to weave together a weight of observatory realist detail with the surreal - what Elizabeth Bishop called the 'surreality of the everyday'. The result here is terrific.” —Rebecca Stott, Costa Award winning author of In the Days of Rain
Praise for Tyler’s Memoir, No Way Home:
“Wetherall has written a luminous memoir that no one who reads it will soon forget.” —The Washington Post
"A searing and heart-wrenching coming-of-age memoir...Wetherall is a beautiful writer, but what makes this memoir so unique is her ability to seamlessly blend a propulsive tale of buried secrets and familial betrayal with a tender father-daughter story about the difficult road to, and power of, forgiveness." —LitHub
Fascinating and altogether moving, No Way Home is an unforgettable page-turner that proves the truth really is stranger than fiction." —Bustle
"Revealing and emotionally nuanced, Wetherall's book probes the dark underside of family relationships to uncover the meaning of acceptance and forgiveness. A compassionate memoir of self-discovery." —Kirkus Reviews
About Tyler
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Tyler Wetherall is a journalist and author. Her first novel, Amphibian, is forthcoming in August, 2024. Her first book, No Way Home: A Memoir of Life on the Run, came out in 2018 from St. Martin’s Press, following her childhood spent on the run with her fugitive father. Her journalism has appeared in The Guardian, National Geographic, Vice, and Condé Nast Traveler, amongst others, and her essays have featured in publications including The New York Times’ ‘Modern Love,’ LitHub, and Narratively. Tyler has made appearances on podcasts and radio including BBC Outlook, Good Life Project, and Radiotopia's Criminal. She is also the creator of Reading the City, a weekly newsletter of bookish events taking place around New York City. Her writing is represented by Emma Parry at Janklow & Nesbit Associates. She is currently the senior editor at James Beard award-winning drinks magazine SevenFifty Daily and lives in Brooklyn with her husband.