Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead

<p><strong>*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 PEN/ROBERT W. BINGHAM PRIZE FOR DEBUT FICTION*</strong></p><p><strong>*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 WILLIAM SAROYAN INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR WRITING*</strong></p><p><strong>Named a Best Book of 2017 by <em>The San Francisco Chronicle </em></strong></p><p><strong>Named one of<em> Electric Literature's</em> 15 Best Short Story Collections of 2017</strong></p><p><strong><strong><strong>A stunningly original debut collection about lives across history marked by violence and longing</strong>.</strong></strong></p><p>A brother and sister turn outlaw in a wild and brutal landscape. The daughter of a diplomat disappears and resurfaces across the world as a deadly woman of many names. A young Philadelphia boy struggles with the contradictions of privilege violence and the sway of an incarcerated father. A monk in sixteenth century England suffers the dissolution of his monastery and the loss of all that he held sacred.</p><p>The characters in <em>The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead</em> Benz's wildly imaginative debut are as varied as any in recent literature but they share a thirst for adventure which sends them rushing full-tilt toward the moral crossroads becoming victims and perpetrators along the way. Riveting visceral and heartbreaking Benz's stories of identity abandonment and fierce love come together in a daring arresting vision.</p>