Hourglass (Hardcover)

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February 2023 Indie Next List


Hourglass is a psalm for anyone who’s ever loved and lost and loved again. Messy, darkly funny, and gut-wrenching, this poem-meets-novella will remind you just how fragile a heart can be. I will come back to it time and time again.”
— Holly Voorsanger, Bookshop Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA

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A FEBRUARY 2023 INDIE NEXT PICK


LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE


A short, lyrical debut novel about love, loss, work, time, and the unquenchable desire for connection with others--for fans of Jenny Offill, Mieko Kawakami, David Szalay and Sheila Heti


The second time you came, we went from bar to bar to bar. It made the city feel smaller. Like a map we were folding to the size of a stamp. We were good at that. We could have fit an entire universe inside a matchbox.


Exquisitely crafted, richly imagined, and as funny as it is moving, Hourglass is an unusual and uniquely told love story. Turning time upside down, it combs the wreckage of personal heartbreak for something universal and asks what it means to lose what you love.


"This book is such a sneaky head f*ck--an epic poem in an ancient style about the brutalities of modern love, a masculine interrogation of feminine heartbreak, a really beautiful way to spend an evening"--Lena Dunham


Product Details
ISBN: 9781609458171
ISBN-10: 1609458176
Publisher: Europa Editions
Publication Date: February 14th, 2023
Pages: 208
Language: English