THE BABYSITTER AT REST is as inspiring today as

is as inspiring today as when it was first published in 1981

Traversing tangents on natural and unnatural selection

of the encounter

where her partner held a university job

persons and things assembled in the fucked desklight of gig economy "free time

THE BABYSITTER AT REST is as inspiring today asFrom the press: Im so happy this collection exists. I feel drunk with love for these stories. Theyre so funny and weird and true. Sheila Heti Five storiesseveral as long as novellasintroduce the world to Jen George, a writer whose furiously imaginative new voice calls to mind Donald Barthelme and Leonora Carrington no less than Kathy Acker and Chris Kraus. In Guidance The Party, an ethereal alcoholic Guide in robes and flowing hair appears to help a