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The Man Who Shot Out My Eye is Dead
The Man Who Shot Out My Eye is Dead
by Chanelle Benz


 
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New York, NY: Ecco (pub: December 12, 2017)

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"A riveting new voice in American fiction.” - George Saunders, author of Tenth of December

An extraordinary talent debuts with a stunningly original collection about lives across history marked by violence and desire

In ten stories of impressive range, Chanelle Benz displays a staggering command of craft as she crisscrosses through time and space to create a complex mosaic of humanity. In “The Diplomat’s Daughter,” a woman disappears and resurfaces across the world as a deadly force of nature with many names. “West of the Known” tells of a brother and sister who turn outlaw in a wild and brutal landscape. “James III” lays bare the struggle of a young Philadelphia boy who must contend with the contradictions of privilege, violence, and the sway of an incarcerated father. In “That We May Be All One Sheepefolde,” a sixteenth century English monk suffers the dissolution of his monastery and the loss of all that he held sacred.

The characters in Benz’s wildly imaginative collection are as varied as any in recent literature, subverting boundaries of race, gender and class, but they share a thirst for adventure which sends them rushing toward moral crossroads, becoming victims and perpetrators along the way. Riveting, visceral, and heartbreaking, Benz’s stories of identity, abandonment, and fierce love come together in a daring, arresting vision. Benz emerges on the scene as an indomitable talent and a brilliant new literary force.

CHANELLE BENZ has published short stories in Guernica, Granta.com, Electric Literature, The American Reader, Fence, and The Cupboard, and is the recipient of an O. Henry Prize. Her story collection The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead was published in 2017 by Ecco. It was named a Best Book of 2017 by the San Francisco Chronicle and one of Electric Literature’s 15 Best Short Story Collections of 2017. It was also longlisted for the 2018 PEN/Robert Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. She currently lives in Memphis, where she teaches at Rhodes College.

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