People Who Live Alone Talk Too Much

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Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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Winner of the 2024 Kellman Prize for Immigrant LiteratureWith the puckish humor of Fran Lebowitz and the keen inventiveness of Lydia Davis, Sofi Stambo’s debut collection leans into curiosity, family, and the old-world bonds that draw her motley characters together.A nervous dog takes flight over Manhattan. A woman soothes her neighbors with multilingual telepathy. A purse snatcher inherits her victim’s scribbled lists—and her worries. In these stories, immigrants to New York City work their way through absurd situations into even messier ones, communing with their fellow diners, officemates, and the local cemetery geese, and greeting chaos with a grin.From Bulgaria to America, People Who Live Alone Talk Too Much pulls at the threads of daily life, unwinding the ordinary into scenes of hilarity, introspection, and surprising connection.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-07-09
Mått127 x 180 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor256
FörlagRestless Books
IllustratörMihaylova, Yana
ISBN9781632064172
UtmärkelserWinner of Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing 2024 (United States)

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Sofi Stambo is a fiction writer based in New York. An excerpt from her forthcoming novel, This Train Has Sailed, won the 2024 LitMag Virginia Woolf Award. Her short stories have won the 2015 DISQUIET Literary Prize for fiction, and been nominated for the 2018 Pushcart Prize. Her work has appeared in Promethean, Ep;phany, The Kenyon Review, The MacGuffin, New Letters, Fourteen Hills, New England Review, Stand, American Short Fiction, Guernica, Agni, Chicago Quarterly Review, Granta Bulgaria, Tin House, Another Chicago Magazine, Bellevue Literary Review, The Common, River Styx, and The Rumpus. Links to some of her publications can be found on her website www.sofistambo.com. Stambo has a master’s degree in literature from Sofia University St. K. Ohridski, Bulgaria, and was a graduate student in Literature at City College, New York. Yana Mihaylova is a Bulgarian-born and NYC-raised artist and designer. She received her BFA from Cooper Union in 2014, and has studied part-time at Grand Central Atelier, New York Academy of Art, Institute of Classical Art & Architecture, and the Art Students League. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

“Sofi Stambo’s wondrous, unpredictable and extraordinarily perceptive humor lights up these pages, and occasionally even sets them on fire. People Who Live Alone Talk Too Much is a superb investigation into the contrary, bemusing, feral and fearsome facets of our shared human character.”— Rivka Galchen, author of Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch“Sofi Stambo's People Who Live Alone Talk Too Much made my heart quicken. Her stories take the reader to the cusp of everything—heartbreak, hilarity, loss, rediscovery, and a deep sense of longing for that thing we call home. And I completely fell for Stambo's half-real, half-surreal characters, who are also animals, reminding us that our mammalian past is filled with frolic and hope even in the dark. I'm smitten.”— Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Book of Joan and Thrust“What a beautifully unnerving, supremely accomplished and altogether exhilarating collection. Stambo slays.”— Junot Díaz, author of This is How You Lose Her“I can't remember the last time I read a debut collection with such excitement. This is a thrilling book: hilarious, surreal, humane, startlingly wise. Sofi Stambo is a brilliant new voice, exhilaratingly original.”— Garth Greenwell, author of Small Rain and What Belongs to You“Sofi Stambo is an incredible writer—sly and intelligent, compassionate and sharp—who brilliantly straddles the line between comedy and despair sentence by sentence, story by story. People Who Live Alone Talk Too Much is a gorgeous collection that manages to be both historically rich and timeless, as well as a deft exploration of what home means when one's homeland, Bulgaria in this case, has changed so much and so often. A stunning and important new book by a writer with talent in spades.”— Molly Antopol, author of The Unamericans“Sofi Stambo’s prose is effervescent and her humor razor sharp, but it’s her empathy that won my heart. From Bulgarian beaches to city diners, these slice-of-life stories follow characters both heady with hope and noble in defeat, shaping a collection that’s ultimately an ode to the strange wonder of being alive.”— Priyanka Champaneri, author of The City of Good Death