An end-of-the-world love story, an epic full of pathos and humor, asking what can be saved of our planetWell, that’s about it for the story of planet Earth, poor Earth, reduced to not much more than a piece of burnt coal. But, as Deb Olin Unferth shows in her latest electrifying novel, life and love persist, even in the most unexpected, inhospitable places.Two women meet on a beach of artificial sand. One was raised in a pod in the ocean and the other may o...

“Deb Olin Unferth’s stories are so smart, fast, full of heart, and distinctive in voice—each an intense little thought-system going out earnestly in search of strange new truths. What an important and exciting talent.”—George SaundersFor more than ten years, Deb Olin Unferth has been publishing startlingly askew, wickedly comic, cutting-edge fiction in magazines such as Granta, Harper’s Magazine, McSweeney’s, NOON, and The

An unforgettably exuberant and potent novel by a writer at the height of her powersTwo auditors for the U.S. egg industry go rogue and conceive a plot to steal a million chickens in the middle of the night—an entire egg farm’s worth of animals. Janey and Cleveland—a spirited former runaway and the officious head of audits—assemble a precarious, quarrelsome team and descend on the farm on a dark spring evening. A series of catastrophes ensues.Deb Olin Unfert...

An "enthralling headscratcher of a first novel . . . weaves an intricate tale of quests and escapes" as a man follows his wife who follows a mysterious stranger ( Publishers Weekly).Deb Olin Unferth's award-winning debut novel is "an off-kilter ode to obsession" with a "richly textured, often surprising linguistic landscape" ( The Rumpus). In it, a man named Myers has noticed that his wife has suddenly become suspiciously absent in the evenings. H...

One disaffected administrator, one disenchanted teenager, four hundred and twenty-one vegan extremists, sixty trucks, and nine hundred thousand grumpy layer hens awaiting liberation. In barns. Six barns. No, wait, seven. No, wait ... Two auditors for the US egg industry conceive a plot to liberate an entire egg farm's worth of animals, with catastrophic results. This wildly inventive but utterly plausible novel about a heist of a very unusual kind swirls with a rich array of voices: a farm...

Janey a 15 ans lorsqu’elle quitte New York pour rejoindre son père biologique dans l’Iowa. Alors que sa mère lui avait caché l’identité de son géniteur jusque-là, elle se débrouille pour traverser les Etats-Unis, laissant derrière elle sa vie d’avant. Les années passent et Janey doit trouver un travail. Son père l’incite à contacter Cleveland, une vieille connaissance de sa mère qui travaille pour la Fédération des producteurs d’œufs de l’Iowa. La vie professionnelle de cette dernière basc...

Rising literary star Deb Olin Unferth offers a new twist on the coming-of-age memoir in this utterly unique and captivating story of the year she ran away from college with her Christian boyfriend and followed him to Nicaragua to join the Sandinistas.Despite their earnest commitment to a myriad of revolutionary causes and to each other, the couple find themselves unwanted, unhelpful, and unprepared as they bop around Central America, looking for "revolution jobs." T...

Janey e Cleveland sono due ispettrici addette al controllo degli allevamenti intensivi di galline ovaiole in una zona dell'Iowa, Dill è l'ex capo di un'associazione ambientalista, Annabelle la riluttante erede di una famiglia di allevatori; per motivi diversi vivono vite simili: frustrate e piene di rimpianti. Finché, per gli effetti a catena di una decisione impulsiva, non diventano improbabili alleati in una folle missione: liberare di nascosto tutte le novecentomila galline di un alleva...

Zwei Frauen beschließen, der Trübsal ihres Lebens und dem Elend der Welt ein Ende zu bereiten und in einer nächtlichen Aktion knapp eine Million Hühner aus einer riesigen Legebatterie in der US-amerikanischen Provinz zu befreien. Für die Umsetzung ihres abenteuerlichen Plans stellen sie ein kurioses Team aus lauter schrägen Figuren zusammen: von militanten Tieraktivisten über einen entlassenen Undercover-Ermittlungschef bis zur Großbauerntochter. Aber die Aktion nimmt einen völlig anderen ...

In this enchanting book, Brian Rea (the beloved artist of the New York Times column "Modern Love") illustrates Brooke Smith's poignant poem about the healing power of creativity. A woman in the midst of grief discovers a wonderful secret: she can see words on the wings of butterflies. And these words inspire her to compose rejuvenating stories of love. This slim, elegant hardcover features a textured case and foil stamping on the cover. Heartfelt poetry and charming illustrations ...

Janey and Cleveland are two auditors for the US egg industry who go rogue and conceive a plot to steal a millionchickens in the middle of the night—an entire egg farm’s worth of animals. They assemble a precarious, quarrelsometeam and descend on the farm on a dark spring evening. It doesn’t go as planned.In her most powerful work yet, Deb Olin Unferth tells a wildly inventive, unforgettable heist story, with one millionnonhuman consciousnesses at its center. Fu...

The essential annual guide to the newest voices in short fiction, selected this year by Tracy O’Neill, Nafissa Thompson–Spires, and Deb Olin UnferthWho are the most promising short story writers working today? Where do we look to discover the future stars of literary fiction? This book will offer a dozen compelling answers to these questions.The stories collected here represent the most recent winners of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging ...