# Event Details - **Event Name**: In-Store: Avigayl Sharp: Offseason w/ Madeline Cash - **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 06 May, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Wed, 06 May, 2026 at 08:00 pm (-04:00) - **Event Description**: "A startling fever dream of a novel. When Avigayl Sharp writes, it is impossible to look away." —Lucy Rose, author of The LambAbout this EventEvent guidelines:Each ticket will include either a copy of the featured book or a $10 Books Are Magic gift card.Additional copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.A signing will follow the talk.Home address is collected for contact tracing purposes; it will not be used otherwise.The event will also be livestreamed for free here: https://youtube.com/live/2jKSKN9ltWgAs a reminder: If you are not feeling well, please do not come to the event, even if you have a ticket; email us and we'll work it out.If you have any questions regarding these guidelines or to request accessibility accommodations, please contact eventhelp@booksaremagic.net.A blisteringly funny and transcendently deranged debut novel following a young woman who takes a job at an all-girls boarding school in a small coastal town to teach English literature—and to try, desperately, to escape the trap that is herself.In Avigayl Sharp’s brilliant and bold debut novel, Offseason, our fiercely observant but self-deluded narrator finds herself teaching at an all-girls boarding school on the Eastern Seaboard. In between manic lectures that veer from Charles Dickens’s Bleak House to the childhood maltreatment of her beloved Iosif Stalin and the generational legacy of the Holocaust, she consorts and canoodles with the town’s locals—including the possibly disgraced male teacher whose job she’s taken over—implicating everyone she meets in her obsessive quest to pin down where, exactly, her own life went wrong.Though she's vowed never to return to her hometown in the middle of the country, the holiday season sends her careening back into the orbit of her overbearing, maladjusted family. Drunk at a bar on the frigid afternoon of the seventh night of Chanukah, she encounters the figure from her adolescence who may or may not be responsible for violating her, bringing her down, and ruining her life. The past collides with the present—but catharsis and closure are nowhere to be found. Not at the bar. Not in her childhood home. And certainly not in the unruly spirals of her mind.Serious yet irreverent with a delirious velocity, Offseason reimagines the conversation around trauma while reckoning with the doomed project of “speaking your truth,” the compulsion to repeat, and whether we can be transformed by art and love.Avigayl Sharp is a writer from Chicago. Her fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, Granta, New England Review, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers and is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, the DISQUIET Literary Prize, and fellowships from Yaddo and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Offseason is her first novel.Madeline Cash is a writer living in New York and London. Her debut novel Lost Lambs is out now. She has work that appears in The Paris Review, Granta, Bomb and other publications. Her short story collection, Earth Angel, is being reissued by Picador in September. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/brooklyn/in-store-avigayl-sharp-offseason-w-madeline-cash/100001985329331474 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, fine-arts, crafts, magic-show, holiday - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 10.89, max: 30.49, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Brooklyn - **state**: NY - **country**: United States - **location**: Books Are Magic Montague - **lat**: 40.6945995 - **long**: -73.994642 - **full address**: Books Are Magic Montague, 122 Montague Street, Brooklyn, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: In-Store: Avigayl Sharp: Offseason w/ Madeline Cash - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events2/banners/17c204be86e51a72faed6a76e17af827aca1bdaa35fb7233198b7fa490e4cf6a-rimg-w1200-h600-dc925d38-gmir.jpg?v=1774192409 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is In-Store: Avigayl Sharp: Offseason w/ Madeline Cash being held? - **A:** In-Store: Avigayl Sharp: Offseason w/ Madeline Cash takes place on Wed, 06 May, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Wed, 06 May, 2026 at 08:00 pm at Books Are Magic Montague, 122 Montague Street, Brooklyn, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing In-Store: Avigayl Sharp: Offseason w/ Madeline Cash? - **A:** In-Store: Avigayl Sharp: Offseason w/ Madeline Cash is organized by Books Are Magic. - **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me? - **A:** In-Store: Avigayl Sharp: Offseason w/ Madeline Cash is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Brooklyn, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. 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