Offseason

Offseason"Obscenely good and very funny." Catherine Lacey, author of The Mbius Book "To let us see the world reinvented through the eyes of a narrator who makes the familiar strange and the strange familiar, to have us laugh at what is painful and feel compassion when the narrator is lighting firecracker sentences to get us to look elsewherethis is the eternal promise of the literary first novel. In Offseason, Avigayl Sharp fulfills that promise, amply, and

But it turns out even the family you thought you could never forgive might have something to teach you: about love

quite literally

So Vi creates a masculine alter ego

and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze

Blue has made a pack of farm animal friends along his route

and how the truth was erased for so long

in a different life

Bryan Stevenson may

Suzanne spends the next twenty-nine years trying to disappear

when Abby reconnects with a half-his-size Mark

dips in the ocean

It will take everything Zélie has to face her final enemy and save her people before the Skulls annihilate them for good