Too Much on the Inside
Set in the sub-cultural heartland of Toronto’s Queen Street West, Too Much on the Inside explores the depths of human connection as the lives of four people in their twenties converge with the impossible task of escaping their pasts in Brazil, Israel, South Africa, and Nova Scotia. They wrestle with love, heartbreak and angst while trying to build new identities. Too Much on the Inside is an authentic amalgam of relationships and perseverance, in the tradition of Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad, Camilla Gibb’s The Petty Details of So and So’s Life, and J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace, illuminated with the author’s own unique insights.
Botha has created a megamix of voices searching to belong in a big city gone sideways…a medley for the post-apocalyptic future that never came.”
– Cathleen With, author of Having Faith in the Polar Girls Prison
“Botha’s new novel is a kind of bouquet — a vase full of life snippets from Toronto’s late-night world. Sweet and sharp, musky and startling, and full of yearning, the lives of these recent arrivals mingle together to create a vivid sense experience. Too Much On The Inside is an easy read in the best sense of the word: pacy, deftly plotted, hugely enjoyable.”
-Richard Scrimger, author and professor, Humber College for Writers
“Danila Botha’s writing is both tenderhearted and sharp in all the best ways. In Too Much on theInside there is so much to admire.”
– Zoe Whittall, Author of Bottle Rocket Hearts
Quattro Books’ Danila Botha interviewed on That Channel.
About The Author
Reviews of this Book
Check out how Danila Botha has a little bit of (her) taste in all of the characters
Ottawa Review of Books reviews “Too Much on the Inside” – Reviewed by Ranga Iyer-Rajah
Find out how Toronto became the 5th character in Danila Botha’s-Too Much on the Inside, and which books inspired her…
Too Much on the Inside makes it to the BookShelf
The Miramichi Reader reviews Too Much on the Inside and interviews Danila Botha
Quill and Quire Reviews “Too Much on the Inside”
Check out the new INTERVIEW with Grace O’Connell of Open Book Toronto with Danila Botha, where they talk about her new book, “Too Much on the Inside”
