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“[Marie-Helene] Bertino blurs the line between writer and magician . . . Dazzling.” –Molly Young, The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)
A Must-Read: The New York Times Book Review, Bustle, Harper’s Bazaar, Chicago Review of Books, Our Culture, Literary HubWinner 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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Marie-Helene Bertino
Published: 04/22/2025
Publisher: Fsg Originals
ISBN: 9780374616472
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 0.70″ H x 8.20″ L x 5.30″ W
About the Author
Marie-Helene Bertino is the author of Beautyland, Parakeet, 2 A.M. at The Cat’s Pajamas, and the story collection Safe as Houses. She was the 2017 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Fellow in Cork, Ireland. She has received the PEN/O. Henry Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Iowa Short Fiction Award, the Mississippi Review Fiction Prize, and fellowships from MacDowell Colony, Sewanee Writers Conference, and New York City’s Center for Fiction, and her work has twice been featured on NPR’s Selected Shorts.
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