Overview
From the critically-acclaimed author of Offseason comes a wildly brilliant debut story collection with a sick sense of humor and a deep respect for the eccentric.
A thirteen-year-old girl falls in love with her dentist; an adult woman moves home after losing her job and must share a bedroom with her father; two friends reconnect and visit their disgraced high school teacher. Stuff gets weird in Avigayl Sharp’s uproariously funny collection, Sickness, Health.
Throughout these eleven stories we follow characters who are desperate for love and approval, intimacy and understanding; they suffer severely from arrested development (as well as countless physical ailments) as they are forced, time and again, to return to the site of their undoing.
Sickness, Health spotlights the deranged, the deluded, the dropouts, the depressives, and the deviants, who are only human for God’s sake, so would you please cut them some slack?
A thirteen-year-old girl falls in love with her dentist; an adult woman moves home after losing her job and must share a bedroom with her father; two friends reconnect and visit their disgraced high school teacher. Stuff gets weird in Avigayl Sharp’s uproariously funny collection, Sickness, Health.
Throughout these eleven stories we follow characters who are desperate for love and approval, intimacy and understanding; they suffer severely from arrested development (as well as countless physical ailments) as they are forced, time and again, to return to the site of their undoing.
Sickness, Health spotlights the deranged, the deluded, the dropouts, the depressives, and the deviants, who are only human for God’s sake, so would you please cut them some slack?
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