Aurelie Sheehan: 4 books

In her follow-up to the critically acclaimed novel The Anxiety of Everyday Objects, Aurelie Sheehan presents a moving coming-of-age story set in the disturbingly reckless and often hilariously tacky 1970s. In 1975, Alison Glass, age thirteen, moves to Connecticut with her bohemian parents and her...

Winner of FC2’s Catherine L. Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize Stories that explore the potent and captivating boundaries between the real and the imaginary   Aurelie Sheehan’s Once into the Night is a collection of 57 brief stories—a fictional autobiography made of assumed identities...

Men in dinosaur suits. A Norwegian freakazoid millionaire. Cats and catharsis, somber symbols, listless lives going off the rails. Pluck, persistence, and the pursuit of happiness. In the tradition of Joyce’s Dubliners, Demigods on Speedway is a portrait of a city that reflects the recession-era...

Jewelry Box is a collection of intimate histories, concentrated renderings of getting older, leaving, remembering. Here, “history” is twinned with “story,” where microcosms of daily life, drenched in the past, blossom from objects: a tube of mascara, a cat’s tail, mushroom paté. This collection explores nuances of sexuality, motherhood, and what it means to know life and tell a story.