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About the Book

Speculative and darkly surreal, the stories in Shadowselves examine characters who have stepped dangerously close to an edge they cannot see. A snow plow driver stranded on the roadside during a blizzard finds himself trapped in a riddled memory. A middle-aged man wakes up one morning to find he's gained four hundred pounds overnight, along with the unbearable regrets of countless strangers. A lonely child sets off to prove the existence of a mythic bird, but uncovers an ugly secret on the other side of town. A comatose teenage outcast traverses the liminal space between life and death. With a sometimes-tenuous grip on reality, and often haunted by mistakes, repressions, and alternate versions of who they might have been, the characters in Shadowselves struggle to find meaningful human connections in a world where the most important things always seem just out of their reach.

About the Author :
Jason Ockert is the author of Wasp Box, a novel, and three collections of short stories: Shadowselves, Neighbors of Nothing and Rabbit Punches. Winner of the Dzanc Short Story Collection Contest, the Atlantic Monthly Fiction Contest, and the Mary Roberts Rinehart Award, he was also a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award and the Million Writers Award. His work has appeared in journals and anthologies including Best American Mystery Stories, Granta, The Cincinnati Review, Oxford American, One Story, and McSweeney's. He teaches at Coastal Carolina University.

Review :
Praise for Jason Ockert "Ockert's voice is quirky, funny, and totally original--it conveys, in these dreamlike, virtuosic stories, a strange and vulnerable kindness you haven't read before."--George Saunders "Ockert's stories make me feel grateful to have eyeballs. His plots are hair-raisingly original, his humor is feverish and dark, his language soars. And yet no matter what altitude of weird Ockert achieves here, his imaginary worlds are always populated by real people, characters who matter deeply to each other, and to their readers." --Karen Russell "The writing is hip but not terminally hip, fun, at times very fun, and contains signs that the author is disturbed enough to be worth watching. He may tell us some new things."--Padgett Powell "Jason Ockert digs deep in these stories and unearths some difficult truths. This is a writer working with a high degree of difficulty and he nails it." --Kevin Wilson "Parents and children, students and teachers, artists, lovers, and shut-ins, these characters live on the outskirts. They are the ones who don't belong--but that does not stop them from discovering ways to soldier on, unearthing hope and even a place to call home in Ockert's mysterious, wild, and wonderful world." --Hannah Tinti "Ockert has made something strange, and great, a book that is absolutely impossible to put down once you've started it."--Brock Clarke "A literary zoo filled with landscapers and lexicographers, pirates and proselytizers, lovers, losers, and an exterminator--just American weirdos doing the thankless job of living. Jason Ockert hits the ground running with this mordant knee-slapper."--J. Robert Lennon "With sentences as darting and sharp as the wasps that haunt this remarkable debut novel, Jason Ockert has crafted an unforgettable vision of an America--and a family--in peril."-- Laura van den Berg "Wasp Box may cause swelling, itching, anaphylactic shock, renal failure, barbed terror, stinging empathy, and profound joy."--Benjamin Percy


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781950539857
  • Publisher: Dzanc Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Dzanc Books
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1950539857
  • Publisher Date: 22 Feb 2022
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)


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