The Daughter Industry is a fierce autopoetic in which cultural and sociopolitical scripts dance toward collision. Through a dazzling choral voice, Patel exposes the machinery built to vanish daughters and vanquish desire. Like an alchemist, Patel speculates, blends, and recomposes the elements until the truth arrives unruly, visionary, and gloriously singular in its force.
—Airea Matthews

In The Daughter Industry, Soham Patel constructs a poetics of survival where each page feels like a laboratory. Theatrical forms, documentary forms, lipograms, redactions, concrete and visual forms, yogic forms: these experimental ways of creating serve as containers for those whose bodies circulate at the deadly intersection of technology, culture, politics, and biology. That there is pleasure in the sounds and rhythms and voices and shapes of this book is a testament to Patel’s vision
—Daniel Borzutzky