Exit Zero, MarieHelene Bertino
Exit Zero, MarieHelene Bertino
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Exit Zero
Stories

Author: Marie-Helene Bertino

Narrator: Adenrele Ojo

Unabridged: 5 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/22/2025

Synopsis

Twelve delightfully strange, haunting stories from the acclaimed, oracular author of Beautyland. Death-shaped entities—with all of their humor and strangeness—haunt the twelve stories in Exit Zero. Vampires, ghost girls, fathers, blank spaces, day-old peaches, and famous paintings all pierce through their world into ours, reminding us to pay attention! and look alive! and offering many other flashes of wisdom from the oracle and author of Beautyland, Marie-Helene Bertino.

About Marie-Helene Bertino

Marie-Helene Bertino is the author of Parakeet, 2 A.M. at The Cat’s Pajamas, and the story collection Safe as Houses. She was the 2017 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Fellow. Her work has received the O. Henry Prize, the Pushcart Prize, the Iowa Short Fiction Award, the Mississippi Review Story Prize, and fellowships from MacDowell, Sewanee, and New York City’s Center for Fiction and has been featured on NPR’s Selected Shorts. She teaches creative writing at NYU and Yale.

About Adenrele Ojo

Adenrele Ojo is an experienced audiobook narrator and actor. A self-described theater brat, she spent many late nights as a young child falling asleep on theatre chairs as her dad directed and her mother performed. Born in Brooklyn and raised in Philadelphia, she received her bachelor of arts in theater from Hunter College in New York.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Chris | Company Pants on February 22, 2025

When I was 15, I joined a program at my school that let me attend a nearby community college instead of high school while receiving credit for both. I went from being surrounded by an endless parade of teenage cliques and venomous social circles that all seemed to ignore me in equal measure to a rea......more

Goodreads review by The Speculative Shelf on December 19, 2024

Bertino tackles heavy themes like grief, estrangement, divorce, and disconnection with the winning charm and dry wit that made her 2024 novel Beautyland such a standout. Her writing is both funny and emotionally resonant – brimming with life, verve, humor and heart. The stories run the gamut of topic......more

Goodreads review by Booksblabbering || Cait❣️ on April 13, 2025

I can’t say I really understood the point or plot of every story, but I did laugh and also feel uncomfortable which I’m pretty sure is the main purpose. We have unicorns, art theft, Groundhog Day set in a sitcom…. This is the author of Beautyland, and if you are familiar with that, this is very simi......more

Goodreads review by nathan on April 12, 2025

Major thanks to NetGalley and FSG for sending me an ARC of this book in exchange for my honest thoughts: *3.5 rounded up A woman trapped in a rerun. A tiger on the loose. Boohoo ghosts. Unicorns. Bertino’s writing reminds me of Amelie. The way scenes chop up and progress into unexpected unravelings. C......more

Goodreads review by Ashley on November 22, 2024

(a very weak 3.5/5⭐, rounded up) Enjoyable, but not as strong as I hoped. It could just be a "me" thing, but some of these felt like too much had been crammed into too short of a story. My favorites from this collection are: Edna In The Rain (kinda reminded me of The Husband's by Holly Gramazio) The Ec......more

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