American Estrangement by Saïd Sayrafiezadeh [in Booklist]
10 Aug, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Iranian American, Persian American, Repost, Short Stories
The men, mostly young, in memoirist and playwright Saïd Sayrafiezadeh’s provoking second story collection lack fulfillment. “Workplace lassitude” is suffocating a 19-year-old wannabe actor stuck at his father’s construction company in “Audition,” while an art-gallery employee fights nine hours of daily tedium in “A, S,...