ISBN The Ballad of Big Feeling book English Paperback 176 pages

“Braverman spins images that pull that perfect trick of making the familiar feel fresh… It’s a thrill to see that language can still be made to help us feel the rush of life anew.” —Lynn Steger Strong,New York Times Book Review

The woman lives on a cul-de-sac with her lover and her dog. She is smart and sensible. She buys groceries and goes to work. And she finds herself reliving her childhood memories while she waits–for what, she is not sure.

In the tradition of Rachel Cusk and Sheila Heti, The Ballad of Big Feeling reveals the mind of a woman perched before middle age and confronting the hidden contradictions and intricacies of everyday life.

In the hands of an exciting new writer, Ari Braverman, it’s a tale both spare and spacious, textured and poetic, frustrating and funny — a delicately crafted volume that will linger in the mind of the reader long after they’ve put it down. It is, in short, a startling and assured debut.