{"product_id":"offseason-hardcover","title":"Offseason - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAvigayl Sharp\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"One of the sharpest and liveliest debuts of the decade . . . wild, raunchy, upsetting, and very much unpredictable.\" \u003cbr\u003e--Gideon Leek, \u003ci\u003eVulture\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Colin Dwyer, NPR\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.19 x 8.36 x 5.52 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 05, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47022018396349,"sku":"9781662603501","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/4ykUZrOo3q9781662603501.webp?v=1782611721","url":"https:\/\/boundigo.com\/products\/offseason-hardcover","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}