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American Estrangement: Stories
American Estrangement: Stories in Bloomington, MN
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Finalist for the 2022
Los Angeles Times
Book Prize in Fiction Longlisted for the 2022 Story Prize A
New York Times
Editors' Choice pick One of
Literary Hub
's Most Anticipated Books of 2021 Stories that capture our times by “a young author who has already established himself as a unique American voice” (
Elle
).
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh has been hailed by Philip Gourevitch as "a masterful storyteller working from deep in the American grain." His new collection of stories—some of which have appeared in
The New Yorker
, the
Paris Review
, and the
Best American Short Stories
—is set in a contemporary America full of the kind of emotionally bruised characters familiar to readers of Denis Johnson and George Saunders. These are people contending with internal struggles—a son’s fractured relationship with his father, the death of a mother, the loss of a job, drug addiction—even as they are battered by larger, often invisible, economic, political, and racial forces of American society.
Searing, intimate, often slyly funny, and always marked by a deep imaginative sympathy,
American Estrangement
is a testament to our addled times. It will cement Sayrafiezadeh’s reputation as one of the essential twenty-first-century American writers.
Los Angeles Times
Book Prize in Fiction Longlisted for the 2022 Story Prize A
New York Times
Editors' Choice pick One of
Literary Hub
's Most Anticipated Books of 2021 Stories that capture our times by “a young author who has already established himself as a unique American voice” (
Elle
).
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh has been hailed by Philip Gourevitch as "a masterful storyteller working from deep in the American grain." His new collection of stories—some of which have appeared in
The New Yorker
, the
Paris Review
, and the
Best American Short Stories
—is set in a contemporary America full of the kind of emotionally bruised characters familiar to readers of Denis Johnson and George Saunders. These are people contending with internal struggles—a son’s fractured relationship with his father, the death of a mother, the loss of a job, drug addiction—even as they are battered by larger, often invisible, economic, political, and racial forces of American society.
Searing, intimate, often slyly funny, and always marked by a deep imaginative sympathy,
American Estrangement
is a testament to our addled times. It will cement Sayrafiezadeh’s reputation as one of the essential twenty-first-century American writers.
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