Offseason

A savage, hilarious and profound debut novel from Paris Review and Granta contributor Avigayl Sharp A blisteringly funny and transcendently deranged debut novel for fans of Ottessa Moshfegh, Patricia Lockwood and George Saunders ´Obscenely good and very funny´ CATHERINE LACEY ´A startling fever dream of a novel´ LUCY ROSE ´So smart, weird and eerie . . . ´I recommend everyone buy it when it comes out´ MADELINE CASH A young woman who takes a job at an all-girls boarding school in a small coastal town to teach English literature - and to try, desperately, to escape the trap that is herself. 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, our fiercely observant but self-deluded narrator implicates everyone she meets in her quest to pin down where exactly her own life went wrong. Obsessed with her own trauma and the trauma - real or imagined - of everyone around her, and her quest to escape from her past is undermined by her inability to ever stop talking about it. Serious and wise yet written with a delirious velocity, Offseason marks the arrival of a fiercely original literary talent. ´Indescribably brilliant . . . You´ve never read anything like it´ ELIZABETH McCRACKEN ´A bonkers and beautifully written novel . . . Absorbing and original´ NUSSAIBAH YOUNIS ´Yes, Offseason is hilarious, eccentric and gleefully mean-spirited, but just when you think you know what Sharp is doing, she will shatter your heart. I haven´t read something so incisive, so slyly tender in years´ LISA McINERNEY ´A narrator who makes the familiar strange and the strange familiar´ MICHAEL CHABON