Jac Jemc

• May-2012
• / Literary
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Ten years ago the narrator unlocked the door of a wrecked apartment, empty of any trace of his wife. As stunning as her disappearance is his response. He freezes on the facts of her, haunting his recollections. This is the story of a man unable to...

• Oct-2014
• / General Fiction
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A thief steals the air from a room. Children invent a nursery rhyme to make sense of their fate, and a band of girls rots from the outside in. These characters stumble through joy and murder and confusion, only to survive and wait for the next catast...

• Aug-2017
• / Psychological Suspense
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Finalist for the Chicago Review of Books Fiction Award, Dan Chaon's Best of 2017 pick in Publishers Weekly, one of Vol. 1 Brooklyn's Best Books of 2017, a BOMB Magazine "Looking Back on 2017: Literature" Pick, and one of Vulture's 10 Best Thriller Bo...

• Oct-2019
• / General Fiction
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The mundane becomes sinister in this collection of twenty disquieting stories from the author of The Grip of It.In Jac Jemc’s dislocating second story collection, False Bingo, we watch as sinister forces -- some supernatural, some of this earth, so...

• Feb-2023
• / Literary
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A wildly over-the-top social satire reimagining the mad misadventures of the iconic royal cousins King Ludwig and Empress Sisi, from the incomparable Jac Jemc.History knows them as King Ludwig II of Bavaria and Empress Elizabeth of Austria, icons of ...