Sarah Gerard
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*Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist.
*A Best Book of 2015 -NPR, BuzzFeed,Vanity Fair, Flavorwire, Largehearted Boy
"Rhythmic, hallucinatory, yet vivid as crystal. Gerard has channeled her trials and tribulations into a work of heightened reality, one that sings to the lonely gravity of the human body." -NPR
The language of the stars is the language of the body. Like a star, the anorexic burns fuel that isn't replenished; she is held together...
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One of today’s most provocative literary writers—the author of the critically-acclaimed Sunshine State and the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award finalist Binary Star**—captures the confused state of modern romance and the egos that inflate it in a dark comedy about a woman's search for acceptance, identity, and financial security in the rise of Trump.**
Nina is a struggling writer, a college drop-out, a liar, and a cheater. More than anything...
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Sarah Gerard follows her breakout novel, Binary Star, with the dynamic essay collection Sunshine State, which explores Florida as a microcosm of the most pressing economic and environmental perils haunting our society.
In the collection's title essay, Gerard volunteers at the Suncoast Seabird Sanctuary, a world renowned bird refuge. There she meets its founder, who once modeled with a pelican on his arm for a Dewar's Scotch campaign but has since...