The Babysitter at Rest [Paperback]

[O]ne of the most tender and grittiest collections I have read. ???Entropy Reading Jen George'sThe Babysitter at Restis like having a heart-to-heart with the most bizarre babysitter you can imagine???a sly representative of a world that seems at first to be like yours but, upon inspection, reveals itself to be tinged with more weirdness, more darkness, and considerably more sex. ???The Arkansas International This brilliantly caustic d??but collection of stories is an attack on the pieties of contemporary social life and the niceties of traditional fiction. ???The New Yorker The Babysitter at Restis an undeniably great debut collection of stories. George's writing is funny, courageous, smart, surreal, seductive, and terrifyingly vulnerable. ???Electric Literature We all know it's commitment to something absurd that makes things funny???but inThe Babysitter at RestJen George commits to scenarios that are not just absurd but weird in a deeply true, 'unspeakable-underpinning-of-reality' sort of way. And thus her commitment is both funny and kind of spiritual at the same time???and by laughing, you're admitting this female inner universe exists. And that kind of changes everything. ???Miranda July, author ofThe First Bad Man: A Novel I'm so happy this collection exists. I feel drunk with love for these stories. They're so funny and weird and true. ???Sheila Heti, author ofHow Should a Person Be? George goes there again and again, combining the profane and the pathetic with a rarely seen energy. When's the last time you read an opening line this charged? 'On a bed in the emergency room, being pumped full of morphine and oxycodone, vomiting, then being pumped full of the same medications, I recall the ways I've always been.' (That little information about George is available???she was born in California and lives in New York???olC{