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Author_Said Sayrafiezadeh
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family
fathers and sons
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mothers
new york city
nyc
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spice girls
tehran
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Product details
- ISBN 9781324050483
- Weight: 155g
- Dimensions: 140 x 211mm
- Publication Date: 03 Jan 2023
- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Said 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.
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh is the author of When Skateboards Will Be Free, and Brief Encounters with the Enemy. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, the Paris Review, and Granta. He teaches at New York University and Hunter College, and lives in New York City.
