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Ilan Mochari's debut novel ZINSKY THE OBSCURE earned rave reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and Booklist. His poems and short stories have been widely published, appearing or forthcoming in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Salamander, Solstice, Hobart, J Journal, Juked, North Dakota Quarterly, Valparaiso Fiction Review, and elsewhere. His work has been nominated for multiple Pushcart Prizes, as well as the Derringer Award, and he is the recipient of a Literature Artist Fellowship grant from the Somerville Arts Council.

PRAISE FOR ZINSKY THE OBSCURE

“A powerful debut with Dickensian touches in its heartbreaking and occasionally humorous chronicle of the life of a modern young man.” – Kirkus Reviews

“This wry debut novel takes on the classic coming-of-age saga, and it makes the reader rethink common assumptions about how young people get from here to there.” – Booklist

“This eloquent novel from Mochari...is both bleak and affecting.” – Publishers Weekly

“Brutally funny....forged from the same literary hearth that has given us such delightful and fussy oddballs as Ignatius J. Reilly, Don Quixote, and Kilgore Trout....this book has the scope of something like Irving's The World According to Garp. It also has that book's heart. ” – DigBoston