{"product_id":"people-who-live-alone-talk-too-much-9781632064172","title":"People Who Live Alone Talk Too Much","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2024 Kellman Prize for Immigrant Literature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith the puckish humor of Fran Lebowitz and the keen inventiveness of Lydia Davis, Sofi Stambo's debut collection leans into curiosity, family, and the old-world bonds that draw her motley characters together.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA nervous dog takes flight over Manhattan. A woman soothes her neighbors with multilingual telepathy. A purse snatcher inherits her victim's scribbled lists--and her worries. In these stories, immigrants to New York City work their way through absurd situations into even messier ones, communing with their fellow diners, officemates, and the local cemetery geese, and greeting chaos with a grin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Bulgaria to America, \u003ci\u003ePeople Who Live Alone Talk Too Much\u003c\/i\u003e pulls at the threads of daily life, unwinding the ordinary into scenes of hilarity, introspection, and surprising connection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sofi Stambo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Restless Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/09\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.00h x 5.00w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781632064172\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/0001\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/04\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eStambo, Sofi:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSofi Stambo\u003c\/b\u003e is a fiction writer based in New York. An excerpt from her forthcoming novel, This Train Has Sailed, won the 2024 \u003ci\u003eLitMag\u003c\/i\u003e Virginia Woolf Award. Her short stories have won the 2015 DISQUIET Literary Prize for fiction, and been nominated for the 2018 Pushcart Prize. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003ePromethean, Ep;phany, The Kenyon Review, The MacGuffin, New Letters, Fourteen Hills, New England Review, Stand, American Short Fiction, Guernica, Agni, Chicago Quarterly Review, Granta Bulgaria, Tin House, Another Chicago Magazine, Bellevue Literary Review, The Common, River Styx\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/i\u003e. Links to some of her publications can be found on her website www.sofistambo.com. Stambo has a master's degree in literature from Sofia University St. K. Ohridski, Bulgaria, and was a graduate student in Literature at City College, New York. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMihaylova, Yana:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eYana Mihaylova\u003c\/b\u003e is a Bulgarian-born and NYC-raised artist and designer. She received her BFA from Cooper Union in 2014, and has studied part-time at Grand Central Atelier, New York Academy of Art, Institute of Classical Art \u0026amp; Architecture, and the Art Students League. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Sofi Stambo \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":48449336836253,"sku":"9781632064172","price":21.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_170bdf65-9f28-4f54-9c6b-ef92bd2bda8e.jpg?v=1781632309","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/people-who-live-alone-talk-too-much-9781632064172","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}