Exit Zero

Stories

Author(s) Marie-Helene Bertino
TypeFiction
Year2025
ISBN9780374616472, 0374616477, 9780374616489, 0374616485
Genres
Description

"Twelve delightfully strange, haunting stories from the acclaimed, oracular author of Beautyland"--
===
A Best Book of the Spring: Bustle and Harper's Bazaar A Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book of the Year Winner of PEN/O. Henry Prize: “Exit Zero” Included in The Best American Short Stories: “Viola in Midwinter” Twelve delightfully strange, haunting stories from the acclaimed, oracular author of Beautyland. Death-shaped entities—with all of their humor and strangeness— haunt the twelve stories in Exit Zero. Vampires, ghost girls, fathers, blank spaces, day-old peaches, and famous paintings all pierce through their world into ours, reminding us to pay attention! and look alive! and offering many other flashes of wisdom from the oracle and author of Beautyland, Marie-Helene Bertino.

Appears on lists

Exit Zero

Back to Books