{"product_id":"offseason-may-2026-fresh-ink-edition","title":"Offseason - May 2026 FRESH INK Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA blisteringly funny and transcendently deranged debut novel for fans of Ottessa Moshfegh, Patricia Lockwood and George Saunders\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Obscenely good and very funny' CATHERINE LACEY\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'A startling fever dream of a novel' LUCY ROSE\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'So smart, weird and eerie . . .\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'I recommend everyone to buy it when it comes out' MADELINE CASH, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eLost Lambs\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA blisteringly funny and transcendently deranged debut novel following a young woman who takes a job at an all-girls boarding school in a small coastal town to teach English literature - and to try, desperately, to escape the trap that is herself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eOffseason\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, our fiercely observant but self-deluded narrator finds herself teaching at an all-girls boarding school in a remote coastal town. In between manic lectures that veer from Charles Dickens's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBleak House\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eto the childhood maltreatment of her beloved Iosif Stalin and the generational legacy of the Holocaust, she implicates everyone she meets in her quest to pin down where exactly her own life went wrong.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThough she's vowed never to return to her hometown, the holiday season sends her careening back into the orbit of her overbearing family. The past collides with the present - but catharsis and closure are nowhere to be found. Certainly not in the unruly spirals of her mind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eObsessed with her own trauma and the trauma - real or imagined - of everyone around her, and her quest to escape from her past is undermined by her inability to ever stop talking about it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSerious and wise yet written with a delirious velocity, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eOffseason\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003emarks the arrival of a fiercely original literary talent.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'You've never read anything like it' ELIZABETH McCRACKEN\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Yes,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eOffseason\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eis hilarious, eccentric and gleefully mean-spirited, but just when you think you know what Sharp is doing, she will shatter your heart. I haven't read something so incisive, so slyly tender in years' LISA McINERNEY\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'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 elsewhere-this is the eternal promise of the literary first novel. In\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eOffseason\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, Avigayl Sharp fulfils that promise, amply, and with art and wit'\u003cbr\u003eMICHAEL CHABON, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eMoonglow\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56891653718389,"sku":null,"price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/8b74a739-e03e-4849-9424-0578516456cf.jpg?v=1773239557","url":"https:\/\/goldsborobooks.com\/products\/offseason-may-2026-fresh-ink-edition","provider":"Goldsboro Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}