“How does one describe a book as indescribably brilliant as Offseason? It is no less than a contour map of one woman on planet Earth, from the innermost workings of her mind and soul to her unruly body to the hilarious and hostile world around her. It is profound and uproarious, exciting and thought-provoking, unafraid and original, genuinely dark and yet also genuinely joyful. You’ve never read anything like it.” —Elizabeth McCracken, author of The Hero of This Book

“An obscenely good and very funny debut about the black hole of building your identity around the worst things that have ever happened to you. Unhinged in the best way.” —Catherine Lacey, author of The Möbius Book

“I am a wholesale fan of Avigayl Sharp’s fiction. Offseason, full of voice, reads like Sharp’s been writing novels for years. Fierce, disciplined observations leap through this unforgettable story of departure and return in an America that has become unrecognizable even to the girls Sharp’s narrator attempts to teach. Hilariously deadpan, mordantly sardonic, Offseason is a knockout debut.” —Jessica Anthony, author of The Most

“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