American estrangement : stories

Author

Saïd Sayrafiezadeh

Call Number

• FICTION SAYR (CEN, OSH)

Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2021]

Physical Description

176 pages ; 22 cm

Summary

"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-are 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 and political 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"--

Contents

• Audition
• Scenic route
• Last meal at Whole Foods
• A, S, D, F
• Fairground
• Metaphor of the falling cat
• A beginner's guide to estrangement.