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ISBN10: 1662603509
ISBN13: 9781662603501
Publisher: Astra House
Published: May 5 2026
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.92
Height: 1.19 Width: 5.52 Depth: 8.36
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781662603501
Publisher: Astra House
Published: May 5 2026
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.92
Height: 1.19 Width: 5.52 Depth: 8.36
Language: English
Longlisted for The Center for Fiction 2026 First Novel Prize One of the sharpest and liveliest debuts of the decade . . . wild, raunchy, upsetting, and very much unpredictable.
--Gideon Leek, Vulture Intensely observant and ineffably askew. It's a funny, sad, discomfiting, unabashedly weird book that I inhaled and haven't managed to stop thinking about yet.
--Gideon Leek, Vulture Intensely observant and ineffably askew. It's a funny, sad, discomfiting, unabashedly weird book that I inhaled and haven't managed to stop thinking about yet.
--Colin Dwyer, NPR In Avigayl Sharp's brilliant and bold debut novel, Offseason, our fiercely observant but self-deluded narrator finds herself teaching at an all-girls boarding school on the Eastern Seaboard. In between manic lectures that veer from Charles Dickens's Bleak House to the childhood maltreatment of her beloved Iosif Stalin and the generational legacy of the Holocaust, she consorts and canoodles with the town's locals--including the possibly disgraced male teacher whose job she's taken over--implicating everyone she meets in her obsessive quest to pin down where, exactly, her own life went wrong. Though she's 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 present--but 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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