—The New York Times Book Review
“Olivia Clare is pure literary dynamite. In these stories, humor and dread oscillate at sonic speed, and the worldliness of the sensibility never negates its vulnerability. Clare writes with Carveresque clarity and bite and an elegance all her own. A bravura debut.”
—Janet Fitch, author of White Oleander
and Paint It Black
Disasters in the First World: Stories
Grove Press/Black Cat, 2017
*Named a favorite book of 2017 by Ann Beattie in The Paris Review*