"In overwhelming accordance, we selected In Sensorium by Tanaïs as the winner of the 2022 Kirkus Nonfiction Prize for its daring, inventiveness, vision, and lyrical eloquence. Using the framework of fragrance and scent, the author's work confronts aspects of our society related to women, gender, and people of color. Seductive, vital, and incomparable, this is a reading experience that endures."

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ONE OF NPR'S BOOKS WE LOVE OF 2022

"In Sensorium is a potently beautiful testimonial of feeling, touching, and breathing beyond the boundaries of empire." — Imani Perry, author of South to America

"In Sensorium does to the senses, particularly smell, what Toni Cade Bambara did to sound. I have never come close to experiencing a book that reminds us to accept the calcified histories and fluid futures deeply packed in our senses." —Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy and Long Division

"Lyrical, expansive, aching, and alive." — Jenny Zhang, Author of Sour Heart