Books by Jac Jemc and Complete Book Reviews

A Different Bed Every Time
A Different Bed Every Time
Jac Jemc. Dzanc (Consortium, dist.), $14.95 trade paper (184p) ISBN 978-1-936873-53-1
Jemc follows her debut novel, My Only Wife, with a collection of short stories of loss and heartache. Many of the vignettes span only a few pages; they’re less stories than moments in time, with characters frozen in moments of nostalgia. In “The...
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False Bingo
False Bingo
Jac Jemc. MCD, $15 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-0-374-53835-4
Jemc’s electric, nimble collection (after The Grip of It) plumbs its characters’ most intimate relationships and unearths potent hidden truths. In “Delivery,” a father’s sudden spike in online shopping signifies a troubling development. In “Don’t...
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Empty Theatre: A Novel or, The Lives of King Ludwig II of Bavaria and Empress Sisi of Austria (Queen of Hungary), Cousins, in Their Pursuit of Connection and Beauty...
Jac Jemc. MCD, $28 (448p) ISBN 978-0-374-27792-5
In this lively work, Jemc (False Bingo) composes a twin portrait of two very different 19th-century monarchs. Austria’s Empress Elisabeth (“Sisi”) is comparatively more engaged than her younger cousin King Ludwig II of Bavaria. Sisi regularly pushes
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The Grip of It
The Grip of It
Jac Jemc. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $15 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-0-374-53691-6
The latest from Jemc (A Different Bed Every Time) is a haunted house tale that toys with the hallmarks of ghost stories—a young city couple moving to a small town, a curmudgeonly neighbor, a spooky legend—to create an exhilarating and unsettling...
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