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“a triumph.”
—Nat Cassidy, author of
When the Wolf Comes Home
“A stunning
debut . . . lyrical
and haunting.”
Booklist (Starred Review)
“A tender
and gutting
showstopper.”
—Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
“marvelously
frightening.”
―Laird Hunt, author of the National
Book Award nominated Zorrie
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Gabrielle Sher
Gabrielle Sher attended Hamilton College, where she earned the Rosenfeld Chapbook Prize for her novella Bowerbird.
She received her MFA and PhD in Creative Writing from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. Her first novel,
Odessa, originated as part of her doctoral dissertation titled “Who Made Us Monsters? Narrative Psychology and The Female Jewish Gothic.” She currently lives and writes in New Jersey with her husband Jamie and their dog Bo.
“Odessa is a triumph. Gabrielle Sher has given us, at once, a classic monster tale, a heartbreakingly relevant historical drama, a pulse-poundingly contemporary descent into horror, a timeless parable about the porous boundaries between atrocity and self-defense, and above all, a powerful reclamation of agency. Count me in for whatever Sher writes next.”
—Nat Cassidy, author of When the Wolf Comes Home
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