Off Season - Hardcover

"James Sturm's Off Season is a big-hearted meditation on the shifting sands of family and manhood in our uneasy era―I swallowed this book whole and I'll be pressing it on anyone who asks me for a great read this year."―Emily Bazelon, Cohost of Political Gabfest

"A haunting examination of the inner life of men in the age of Trump. Off Season is the kind of novel we need in this moment, forcing us to confront the personal despair at the heart of our national destiny. I was mesmerized by every image, every word."―Steve Almond, Chost of Dear Sugars and author of Bad Stories: What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country

“Off Season is a revelation... The soulful faces of Sturm’s nonhuman, all-too-human characters ask us to withhold judgment, hear out the other sides of the story.”―The New York Times

"This finely wrought, politically agitated graphic fiction recalls Raymond Carver, and speaks almost too painfully to the personal strife in today’s political climate."―Publishers Weekly starred review

“In the future, doubtless many dozens of regular novels will be written against the backdrop of Trump... I expect very few of them to reach the places this graphic novel does, so succinctly and with such seeming ease.”―The Guardian graphic novel of the month

"Quietly masterful... Sturm has responded to the present-day raw nerves and sense of dislocation with an eloquently relatable work."―Booklist Starred Review

"The ache of a specific sort of masculine longing and restraint is powerfully articulated [in Off Season,] a book that feels true to the current moment."―Boston Globe

"James Sturm’s spare, clean illustrations... offer glimpses through window panes onto a family’s life."―Chicago Tribune