Offseason "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 Offseason, Avigayl Sharp fulfills that promise, amply, and with art and wit." —Michael Chabon, author of Moonglow “Avigayl Sharp is, quite simply, a mind-bogglingly brilliant writer, profound andhilarious, exciting and thought-provoking, unafraid and original: you’ve never readanyone like her.” —Elizabeth McCracken A 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. Hardcover 05/05/2026