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"Obscenely good and very funny."--Catherine Lacey, author of The Möbius Book "To let us see the world...
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"Obscenely good and very funny."
--Catherine Lacey, author of The Möbius Book "To 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 elsewhere--this 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 Moonglow "How does one describe a book as indescribably brilliant as Offseason? . . . It is profound and uproarious, exciting and thought-provoking, unafraid and original, genuinely dark and yet also genuinely joyful. You've never read anything like it."
--Elizabeth McCracken, author of The Hero of This Book
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.
Author: Avigayl Sharp
Publisher: Astra House
Published: 05/05/2026
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 8.36h x 5.52w x 1.19d
ISBN: 9781662603501
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/16/2026
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2026
Booklist 04/01/2026
About the Author
Avigayl Sharp is a writer from Chicago. Her fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, Granta, New England Review, and elsewhere. She was a 2023-2024 writing fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and holds an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers. Offseason is her first novel.
--Catherine Lacey, author of The Möbius Book "To 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 elsewhere--this 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 Moonglow "How does one describe a book as indescribably brilliant as Offseason? . . . It is profound and uproarious, exciting and thought-provoking, unafraid and original, genuinely dark and yet also genuinely joyful. You've never read anything like it."
--Elizabeth McCracken, author of The Hero of This Book
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.
Author: Avigayl Sharp
Publisher: Astra House
Published: 05/05/2026
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 8.36h x 5.52w x 1.19d
ISBN: 9781662603501
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/16/2026
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2026
Booklist 04/01/2026
About the Author
Avigayl Sharp is a writer from Chicago. Her fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, Granta, New England Review, and elsewhere. She was a 2023-2024 writing fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and holds an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers. Offseason is her first novel.
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