Review: In ‘American Estrangement,’ dark stories about the dystopias inside us all

In the latest story collection from Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, characters grapple with a looking-glass world at once terrifying and numbingly ordinary.

Review: In 'American Estrangement,' Dark Stories About The Dystopias Inside Us All

Los Angeles Times – by David L. Ulin

Could there be a more spot-on title for Saïd Sayrafiezadeh’s second collection of short fiction than “American Estrangement”? All seven of the stories here grow out of an America gone menacing and strange. Some portray a country that is through the looking glass, others a culture still recognizably our own. And yet, that still is a key modifier because in Sayrafiezadeh’s work, everything is bad and getting worse.

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