Siege of Comedians

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*Powerful and rigorous literary fiction from an author with strong industry and community ties
*Author's past honors include: Finalist, Best Book of 2016, from an Independent Press, Foreward Reviews; Nominated, American Library Association, Notable Book, 2016; New York Foundation for the Arts 2012; CUNY Research Grant (2010, 2015); Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation Grant (2008 and 2009); Research Grant, New York University; National Endowment of the Arts, American Heritage Award; Presidential Travel Grant, Hunter College; Josephine Paddock Fellowship, Barnard College
*Feature, review, and interview push to publications where the author/press have connections, including: The New Yorker (personal connection), Guernica, Lit Hub, Bomb, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Jewish Review of Books, Bookforum, New York Review of Books, and more
*Promotion through the Jewish Book Council and other outlets focused on Jewish literature
*Blurb outreach to Leni Zumas, Ben Markus, Sigrid Nunez, John Keene, Brandon Hobson, and more
*Mass galley mailing, including to the author's local indies: Community Bookstore, McNally Jackson, Northshire Books, etc.
*Egalleys available through Edelweiss

Reviews

"A moving and powerful work of art that examines mystery, identity, and displacement. Like DeLillo and Spiotta at their best, Susan Daitch is a master of style here, threading the atmospheric with the suspenseful, the strange with the mundane, and she manages to bring everything together in the end with a big payoff. One of the most exciting, original writers working today. Brandon Hobson, National Book Award finalist and author of The Removed Daitchs singular genius is to take from its grimed and cobwebbed neglect what might be called the palimpsest of history and selectively restore its lines and erasures until, to our horror and delight, we begin to recognize ourselves. Siege of Comedians is a brilliant and enthralling novel, a noir diamond reflective of our collective dark history and formed under the weight of a million missing-persons cases. Eugene Lim, author of Dear Cyborgs An ambitious novel ... this book charms, intrigues, and bewilders. Kirkus Reviews Siege of Comedians is a book for our age and beyond, ranking in the bright realm of Ishiguro, Ondaatje, Rhys. Daitch sparks her reader with concerns deep and global, her sentences incredible as a panthers run through beautiful and brutal fields. Edie Meidav, author of Crawl Space and Future Love Paradise Brimming with mystery and graced by Daitchs assured, wry touch, Siege of Comedians is a New York novel for the twenty-first century. John Keene, author of Counternarratives

Author Bio

After graduating from Barnard College, Susan Daitch attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. She has published five novels and a collection of short stories. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in Black Clock, Guernica, Conjunctions, Slice, Tablet, Tin House, McSweeneys, Bomb, The New England Review, TriQuarterly, ReDivider, The Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Fiction, and elsewhere. Daitch was a recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, two Vogelstein fellowships, two Pushcart Prize nominations, and was the Eli Cantor fellow at Yaddo. Fall Out, a novella, was published by Madras Press, all proceeds donated to Women For Afghan Women.