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Claire Oshetsky

Claire Oshetsky - Books

"Listen! I will be honest with you, I do not offer the old smooth prizes..."
- Walt Whitman


I review books here on goodreads as my fashion-conscious bibliophilic alter ego, "Lark Benobi." Come follow or friend me on my lark benobi page. if you like. I visit this page so infrequently that I won't be accepting friend requests here.

Now and then I'll be leaving reviews on goodreads as "Claire Oshetsky" but only for those books that have influenced me as a writer.

People keep asking me whether the child in the novel Chouette is meant to represent an autistic child, or a trans child, or an autistic trans child, or some other kind of child. The book is fiction. The child in the novel is an owl.

Other people ask me what "Poor Deer," the titular character in my latest novel, represents. I have no good answer to that question.

Other autobiographical stuff to know about me: I love to read. My life goal is to eat and grow fat, same as the three billy goats gruff.

Poor Deer

2024
A wondrous, tender novel about a young girl grappling with her role in a tragic loss—and a