{"product_id":"offseason-9781662603501","title":"Offseason","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Obscenely good and very funny.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Catherine Lacey, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Möbius Book\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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 \u003ci\u003eOffseason\u003c\/i\u003e, Avigayl Sharp fulfills that promise, amply, and with art and wit.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Michael Chabon, author of \u003ci\u003eMoonglow\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"How does one describe a book as indescribably brilliant as \u003ci\u003eOffseason\u003c\/i\u003e? . . . 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.\" \u003cbr\u003e--Elizabeth McCracken, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Hero of This Book\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Avigayl Sharp's brilliant and bold debut novel, \u003ci\u003eOffseason, \u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eBleak House\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThough 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSerious yet irreverent with a delirious velocity, \u003ci\u003eOffseason\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Avigayl Sharp\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Astra House\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/05\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.36h x 5.52w x 1.19d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781662603501\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/16\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAvigayl Sharp is a writer from Chicago. Her fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew England Review\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003ci\u003eOffseason\u003c\/i\u003e is her first novel.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Avigayl Sharp \/ Hardcover \/ English","offer_id":48230522552477,"sku":"9781662603501","price":33.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_2262b151-0858-4137-b121-392676c350f2.jpg?v=1778577106","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/offseason-9781662603501","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}