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Finalist for the 2022 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Fiction
Longlisted for the 2022 Story Prize
A New York Times Editors' Choice pick
One of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2021

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

Said Sayrafiezadeh has been hailed by Philip Gourevitch as "a masterful storyteller working from deep in the American grain." His new collection of storiesâ??some of which have appeared in The New Yorker, the Paris Review, and the Best American Short Storiesâ??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 strugglesâ??a son's fractured relationship with his father, the death of a mother, the loss of a job, drug addictionâ??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 twenty-first-century American