a novel by claire oshetsky
Ecco: coming in February, 2026
A comic novel about a young woman who begins to fantasize about how she might rid herself of her abusive husband, little knowing that the universe is listening...
(cover to come )
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Evil Genius...Poor Deer...Chouette...& The Book of Dog by Lark Benobi
EVIL GENIUS
POOR DEER
a novel by claire oshetsky
Ecco: January 2024
A wondrous, tender novel about a young girl grappling with her role in a tragic loss, attempting to reshape the story of her life
"Readers will be captivated by Margaret's beautifully weird search for atonement." -- Publishers Weekly
"Beautiful, terrifying. . . . Grief is a well-trod territory in fiction, but in Oshetsky's hands, this familiar topic becomes fresh and strange. . . . With Poor Deer, Oshetsky proves themself the bard of unruly psyches." -- New York Times Book Review
CHOUETTE
a novel by claire oshetsky
Ecco: November 2021
Tiny is pregnant. Her husband is delighted. “You think this baby is going to be like you, but it’s not like you at all,” she warns him. “This baby is an owl-baby.”
"Searing and ethereal...A harrowing and magnificent fable." -- New York Times Book Review
"Chouette is a sublime parable of mother-love which ferociously eviscerates society's failure to accept nonconformity . . . It would not surprise me if Chouette finds a place in the feminist literary canon. It has lingered in my mind in a way that only the most original works do." --The Guardian
THE BOOK OF DOG BY LARK BENOBI
a novel by claire oshetsky
Vegetablian Books: September 2018
It's the night of the Yellow Puff-Ball Mushroom Cloud and a mysterious yellow fog is making its way across the world, sowing chaos in its path. The White House is under attack by giant bears, the President is missing, and the Vice President has turned into a Bichon Frise. It's Apocalypse Time, my friends. Soon the Beast will rise. And six unlikely women must make the perilous journey to the Pit of Nethalem, where they will stop the Beast from fulfilling its evil purpose, or die trying.
“Just as an Aesop’s fable has its own enduring charm, so too does The Book of Dog win the reader over with its lessons presented in a curious mix of whimsy and biting social satire.” —Fantasy & Science Fiction
“A triumphant tale about marginalized people who work together to effect the greater good.” —Foreword Reviews