Sommer Schafer
fiction writer editor might make you squirm
Seventeen different women. Magical. Fantastical. Real.
How far will each woman go to face the hands they've been dealt?
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From Unsolicited Press, November 14, 2023.
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Order at your favorite independent bookstore, here, or here. Request it at your local library.
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Might make you squirm.
"Congratulations.
This book is amazing on every level."
"Sommer Schafer is one of our best short story writers . . . these stories brim with intelligence and wit. There's so much variety here, both in theme and execution, ranging from domestic suburbia to the surreal. In fact, one of my favorite stories here is, on the surface, a horror story. But it is also much more, with many hidden depths to plumb if you choose to look beneath that glossy surface.”
“Schafer reminds me of the writer Joyce Carol Oates in how she rides a line between what is real and what is surreal”
“This is a fabulous collection. These stories are complex, unflinching, and often deeply funny in a dark way.”
“I discovered that a reading experience I initially thought wasn't my cup of tea was in fact a much stronger drink, at times intoxicating.”
“What is a woman, and what might she become? In this keenly observed collection of short stories, the question is both complex and mysterious.”
“Schafer is a writer to watch. With her sharp sense of current social sensibilities, she can render human behavior in horrific or humorous flavors, sometimes both at the same time”
"Sommer Schafer is one of the best short story writers out there; definitely one of my favorites. Her writing is fabulous—her descriptions are always precise, her observations keen and interesting. And she’s subtly or laugh-out-loud funny."