titles / Osin by Jessica Lott
“An important debut.”
—Ha Jin
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Osin
by Jessica Lott
Trade Paperback
Price: $13.00
108 pages / 5.5X8.5
ISBN 0-9723363-7-0
Pub. Date: April 2007
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Offering a fresh perspective on the problem of being a late middle-aged male completely out of touch with his world, his family, and himself, this tragic yet funny novella tells the story of Osin, a recently retired publisher in Northern California adrift on the sea of his mostly pointless life. His first wife left him after his many extramarital trysts, his second wife is leaving him for someone else, and he is estranged from his son. Obsessed with the idea that his family holds the key to his redemption, he attempts to reunite with his first wife, whom he hasn't seen in 15 years, in the hopes of mending his life.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jessica Lott lives in New York City and writes for New York Arts magazine. She has an MA in English Literature from the American University in St. Louis and an MA in Creative Writing from the Boston University. She has taught Creative Writing at Boston University and Brookline Education. This is her first book.
"The sentences are clean and direct and active and with them she slowly builds a world of complex characters who are struggling, in real ways, to figure out how to connect.”
—Aimee Bender
“A funny and moving story, which shows love survives pain, folly, and losses…This novella is a work of mature sensibility and deep light. It should signify an important debut.”
—Ha Jin
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