Alexis Schaitkin is the author of Elsewhere, a finalist for the Carol Shields Prize,and Saint X, which was named a New York Times Book Review Notable Book and has been translated into seven languages. Her short stories have been anthologized in the Best American Short Stories and the Best American Nonrequired Reading. She lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts, with her husband and children.
Alexis Schaitkin
About the Author
Books by Alexis Schaitkin
BY Alexis Schaitkin
From the author of Saint X, a stunning novel about the fate of two children sent to the English countryside to escape the onset of World War II and the aftermath of the decisions they made there.
BY Alexis Schaitkin
Richly emotive and darkly captivating, with elements of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” and the imaginative depth of Margaret Atwood, Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin conjures a community in which girls become wives, wives become mothers and some of them, quite simply, disappear.
BY Alexis Schaitkin
Hailed as a “marvel of a book” and “brilliant and unflinching,” Alexis Schaitkin’s stunning debut, Saint X, is a haunting portrait of grief, obsession, and the bond between two sisters never truly given the chance to know one another.
