about my four novels
Evil Genius(2026), Poor Deer (2024), Chouette (2o21), and The Book of Dog by Lark Benobi (2018)
EVIL GENIUS
a novel by claire oshetsky
Ecco: coming in February, 2026
(cover to come)
An exuberant novel about a young woman’s quest to carve her own path—even if she needs to step over a few dead bodies along the way
Exhilarating, surreal, and brutally funny, Evil Genius is a comic noir exploring obsession and desire—and what happens when a sweetly seditious young woman dares to imagine a better life for herself.
POOR DEER
a novel by claire oshetsky
Ecco: January 2024
"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
"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
“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