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source: bookwyrm
date: 2025-09-19 23:20:01.00 +00
title: "Exit Zero by Marie-Helene Bertino"
post_uri: https://bookwyrm.social/user/gravely/comment/8505264
post_id: 8505264
bookwyrm_updated: 2025-09-19T23:20:01.400784+00:00
tags:
  - bookwyrm
book_title: "Exit Zero"
book_author: "Marie-Helene Bertino"
book_url: https://bookwyrm.social/book/1998574
reading_status: read
---
![Cover of Exit Zero by Marie-Helene Bertino, published 2025 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 208 pages](./cover-8505264.jpeg)

"there's a Cheers story in it" set me up to expect lighter stuff but these are pretty damned serious stories. I particularly liked "Exit Zero", "Can Only Houses Be Haunted", "The Ecstasy of Sam Malone", "Flowers and Their Meanings", and "Viola in Midwinter", which is nearly half the stuff here.