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Book SynopsisStories that capture our times by “a young author who has already established himself as a unique American voice” (
Elle).
Trade Review"[An] excellent new collection…[Sayrafiezadeh] writes with a veteran’s swagger and discipline…[T]he collection joins a list that includes Leonard Michaels’s “I Would Have Saved Them if I Could,” Lorrie Moore’s “Like Life” and Charles D’Ambrosio’s “The Dead Fish Museum” as a second book of stories that exceeds and expands upon the promise of the first, confirming the writer as a major, committed practitioner of a difficult form." -- Andrew Martin - The New York Times Book Review
"Despite its array of different settings,
American Estrangement is thematically and formally cohesive. In addition to its treatment of disconnection and precarity, there is a compelling combination of realism and allegory, and some dystopian flourishes – features that have inspired comparisons with the work of George Saunders." -- Arin Keeble - The Times Literary Supplement
"A dark and exhilarating collection." -- David L. Ulin - The Los Angeles Times
"Skillful and controlled…[The stories in
American Estrangement] speak, at times quite powerfully, to an overriding feeling of cultural and personal loneliness." -- Sam Sacks - The Wall Street Journal
"[A] stellar new collection… Sayrafiezadeh is a master… His prose has a rhythm that is startlingly original and an intense quirkiness that catches you unaware." -- Elaine Margolin - Los Angeles Review of Books
