Touch Grass

Sharp and inventive . . . holds a mirror up to our era of social media and distorted reality. Through clever storytelling and keen societal observation, Colussi explores the enormous themes of unreliable memory, ego and sense of self, social media and unregulated technologies, and future consequences of current actions. Touch Grass is an immersive and surprising novel.

Danielle Bagnato, Books + Publishing

Touch Grass is an Alice-in-Wonderland experience, transporting you to places as warped as they are recognisable; as impossible as they are real. Charmingly wry and original, Colussi lets us view our humanity – and what might await us – through a lens too sharp to be a looking glass.

Georgia Harper

Easily one of the best books of 2026 so far. Dizzyingly clever, genuinely profound and one of the funniest novels I've ever read.

James McKenzie Watson

Touch Grass makes even the strangest ideas feel deeply human.

Samantha Corry, RUSSH Magazine

Touch Grass leads us fearlessly into a future that's already here. Along the way, it offers a vision of our potential ruin that is part warning, part screwball comedy – and a riot of brilliant, incisive writing about social media, body politics and the effects of worshiping false gods. Audacious, funny and anarchic – it dares us to follow.

Jack Harkin, Gleebooks

Mary Colussi’s 2025 Penguin Literary Prize–winning debut deftly avoids the pitfalls of the genre . . . [and] presents us with a delicately realised vision of a world so familiar you could wake up there tomorrow.

Tamuz Ellazam, Readings