
Rachel Barenbaum
Rachel Barenbaum is the author of the critically-acclaimed novels Atomic Anna and A Bend in the Stars. She is a prolific writer and reviewer. Her work has appeared in the LA Review of Books, Harper’s Bazaar, and more.
Her literary radio show, Check This Out, airs on NHPR and spotlights emerging and diverse authors. She has been a scholar in residence at the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute at Brandeis and her work has been supported by residencies at Ucross and Norton Island.
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"The Wedding People" is a novel about depression, love, one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help her start anew.
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"The Safekeep" is a story of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the same house in the Dutch countryside during the summer of 1961; an exploration of the legacy of WWII and the darker parts of our collective past.
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Looking for a good book to read by the fire or to give as a gift? Tune in to hear three NH librarians offer their takes on their favorite books of 2024.
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A tender yet searing debut novel about intergenerational fractures and coming of age, following a young woman who immigrates to the U.S. from the Philippines and finds herself adrift between familial expectations and her own desires.
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An unlikely production of Euripides in a prison quarry, set in ancient Greece with a contemporary Irish accent. As funny as it is moving, the novel is an ode to the power of art in a time of war and brotherhood in a time of enmity.
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Based on (mostly) true events, "The Bullet Swallower" is a magical realism western about violence and revenge, a story that asks who pays for the sins of our ancestors, and whether it is possible to be better than our forebears.
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In this historical fantasy novel, a group of passengers set out on the Trans-Siberian Express train, in a journey across a magical landscape known as “the Wastelands.” Can they trust each other even as the rules seem to be changing?
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This debut novel uncovers the story of three generations of African Americans, whose lives span the 20th century and reveal a much larger picture of prejudice and abandonment, love and devotion.
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In a novel about belonging, the shifting nature of memory, and bloodlines, one man’s family is divided like the river that separates him from his childhood home on Maine’s Penobscot Reservation.
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Rachel Barenbaum returns for a third season of in-depth conversations with writers. "The Lion Women of Tehran" is about friendship, betrayal, and redemption, during three transformative decades in Iran.