Stories that capture our times by “a young author who has already established himself as a unique American voice” (Elle).

Saïd Sayrafiezadeh has been hailed by Philip Gourevitch as "a masterful storyteller working from deep in the American grain." His new collection of stories --- some of which have appeared in The New Yorker, the Paris Review and the Best American Short Stories --- is set in a contemporary America full of the kind of emotionally bruised characters familiar to readers of Denis Johnson and George Saunders. These are people contending with internal struggles --- a son’s fractured relationship with his father, the death of a mother, the loss of a job, drug addiction --- even as they are battered by larger, often invisible, economic, political and racial forces of American society.

Searing, intimate, often slyly funny, and always marked by a deep imaginative sympathy, AMERICAN ESTRANGEMENT is a testament to our addled times. It will cement Sayrafiezadeh’s reputation as one of the essential 21st-century American writers.

Audiobook available; read by David Bendena, Pete Cross, Mark Owen, Qarie Marshall, Stephen Prechtl and Lynch Travis