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For readers of Miranda July, Rebecca Lee, and Mary Gaitskill, a debut short-story collection that is a mesmerizing blend of wit, transgression, and heart. A passive-aggressive couple in the midst of a divorce compete over whose new fling is more exotic. A Russian migrant in Tokyo agonizes over the money her lover accepts from a yakuza. A dead body on a drug dealer's floor leads to the strangest first date ever. In this razor-sharp debut collection, Jen Silverman delivers eleven interconnected stories that take place in expat bars, artist colonies, train platforms, and matchbox apartments in the United States and Japan. Unforgettable characters crisscross through these transient spaces, loving, hurting, and leaving each other as they experience the loneliness and dangerous freedom that comes with being an outsider.
About the Author
Jen Silverman is a New York-based writer and playwright. She is the author of the story collection The Island Dwellers (2018) , longlisted for a PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for debut fiction. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, The Gettysberg Review, and The Baffler among others. Her plays include Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties; The Moors; The Roommate; and Witch. They have been produced off-Broadway, regionally, and in the UK, Australia, Spain, Switzerland and China. She is a two-time MacDowell Colony fellow, a member of New Dramatists, the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts grant, an LMCC Fellowship, the Yale Drama Series Award, and a Playwrights of New York Fellowship. Jen also writes for TV and film. More info: www.jensilverman.com
