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Offseason: A Novel
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Obscenely Good And Very Funny.Catherine Lacey, Author Of The Mbius BookTo Let Us See The World Reinvented Through The Eyes Of A Narrator Who Makes The Familiar Strange And The Strange Familiar, To Have Us Laugh At What Is Painful And Feel Compassion When The Narrator Is Lighting Firecracker Sentences To Get Us To Look ElsewhereThis Is The Eternal Promise Of The Literary First Novel. In Offseason, Avigayl Sharp Fulfills That Promise, Amply, And With Art And Wit.Michael Chabon, Author Of MoonglowHow Does One Describe A Book As Indescribably Brilliant As Offseason? . . . It Is Profound And Uproarious, Exciting And ThoughtProvoking, Unafraid And Original, Genuinely Dark And Yet Also Genuinely Joyful. YouVe Never Read Anything Like It.Elizabeth Mccracken, Author Of The Hero Of This Bookin Avigayl SharpS Brilliant And Bold Debut Novel, Offseason, Our Fiercely Observant But SelfDeluded Narrator Finds Herself Teaching At An AllGirls Boarding School On The Eastern Seaboard. In Between Manic Lectures That Veer From Charles DickensS Bleak House To The Childhood Maltreatment Of Her Beloved Iosif Stalin And The Generational Legacy Of The Holocaust, She Consorts And Canoodles With The TownS LocalsIncluding The Possibly Disgraced Male Teacher Whose Job SheS Taken OverImplicating Everyone She Meets In Her Obsessive Quest To Pin Down Where, Exactly, Her Own Life Went Wrong.Though SheS Vowed Never To Return To Her Hometown In The Middle Of The Country, The Holiday Season Sends Her Careening Back Into The Orbit Of Her Overbearing, Maladjusted Family. Drunk At A Bar On The Frigid Afternoon Of The Seventh Night Of Chanukah, She Encounters The Figure From Her Adolescence Who May Or May Not Be Responsible For Violating Her, Bringing Her Down, And Ruining Her Life. The Past Collides With The PresentBut Catharsis And Closure Are Nowhere To Be Found. Not At The Bar. Not In Her Childhood Home. And Certainly Not In The Unruly Spirals Of Her Mind.Serious Yet Irreverent With A Delirious Velocity, Offseason Reimagines The Conversation Around Trauma While Reckoning With The Doomed Project Of Speaking Your Truth, The Compulsion To Repeat, And Whether We Can Be Transformed By Art And Love.
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