Author(s): Marci Vogel

Novel | Fiction Reductions | Humour & Satire

The inaugural winner of the Miami Book Fair/de Groot Prize for Best Novella, this fiction debut introduces a distinctive new American voice

Life is coming fast at  twenty-something April. All the heavy stuff of adulthood--including the death of a loved one--seems to have happened to her all at once, leaving her reeling, and challenging her wit and grit in ways she never imagined. In a stirring portrait told in keenly etched scenes, Death and Other Holidays follows April over the course of a year, with a candid insight that's tender, playful, and sparkles with originality.

Review: "Hypnotic and elegant... It's a stunning meditation on loss, love, and our powerlessness in the face of time - for better or worse, life carries on." -BUZZFEED

"[A] beautiful book...The prose is stunning..a moving and graceful novella of overcoming sorrow." -*starred* KIRKUS REVIEWS

"Short but mighty... a remarkable confluence of palpable mood, a capricious and shifting tone, and wise character studies... An original and affecting tour of family, the calendar, and the days that bind us to both." -BOOKLIST

"A stirring portrait told in keenly-sketched scenes... with candid insight that is tender, playful and sparkles with originality."-BOOK RIOT

"Death and Other Holidays brilliantly balances humor and anger, sorrow and beauty. Vogel's subjects may be grief and death, but her writing reflects life as we live it, life with its many intricate, unnoticed balances."-NPR

"A tour de force... Composed of gorgeous vignettes...Death and Other Holidays is raw, honest, and darkly humorous. Vogel's tight prose reads like something of a diary by its immediacy, capturing the inner workings of April's mind, and speaks to the aching young adult in all of us." -ARKANSAS INTERNATIONAL