Eve Ottenberg

Dead in Iraq

A stereoscopic study of battlefield carnage and suburban aspirations - of the chaos of roadside explosions abroad and the masquerade of normality at home - Eve Ottenberg's stingingly detailed, stately paced Dead in Iraq is an elegy suffused with a sense of loss and fortified with a quiet fury over lives destroyed, dreams dashed, bonds severed. It's a novel about what happens under the noise of headline news, and how the lives of the survivors are lived after those headlines fade - the silent, invisible true casualty toll of war.

–James Wolcott, Vanity Fair columnist
and author of the novel, The Catsitters

Selected Works

Fiction

The Walkout, A Tale in Three Parts
This tale of a teachers' strike pits beleaguered public workers against an ambitious official and the business model of education.

What They Didn't Know, Stories and Essays
These stories and essays, a number previously published, make for a collection that is various and compelling.

Reluctant Reaper
A comic novel in dialogue about a group of daffy suburbanites and how they get tangled up with each other

Suburbia
A comic novel about a group of well-heeled ninnies who band together in a "not in my backyard" effort.

Dead in Iraq
A novel about the human costs of the Iraq war.

The Unblemished Darlings
A comic novel about a group of bumblers with a get-rich-quick scheme.

The Widow’s Opera
A dark drama about murder and betrayal in New York City in the 1950s.

Glum and Mighty Pagans
A comic novel about real estate in Manhattan.

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