Sara Jaffe’s stories casually sidestep the conventional to create something revelatory and fresh. In Hurricane Envy, characters struggle to be perceived by others as they perceive themselves—as an authentic artist, a “good white person,” a legitimate parent. Jaffe brings her keen eye and her formal ingenuity to subjects that range from queer parenting, to the rise of the algorithm in the music industry, to gentrification and institutional claims on art, to post-punk culture, anti-Zionist Jewish identity, the rhetoric and realities of American safety. Hurricane Envy, the highly anticipated follow-up to Jaffe’s beloved novel Dryland, shows a writer in the fullness of her craft and insight. | 
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