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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A coming-of-age novel set in the schoolyards, nightclubs, and alleyways of a gritty, post-industrial town in Yorkshire, England. Three girls are inseparable, but as they grow up and away from one another, a long-festering secret threatens to rip the trio apart. -
Three star players on a high school football team are accused of violence by another student. Their secrets, and the secrets of their parents, threaten to shatter the community in a novel of race, class, and privilege. -
Based on a true story of murder for hire, this novel examines the extent to which one family will go in order to protect their own. -
A tightly-bound Nigerian family living in Florida and their struggle with the trauma of war as it ripples through the generations. -
Two brothers in dire straits, living on the edge of Yellowstone, agree to a desperate act of survival. -
A novel about marriage and ambition, sexuality and secrecy, and the true costs of building an empire, set in the early 1900s in New York City. -
This debut novel is a story of family, sacrifice, and loyalty, and of the power of love to endure beyond distance and time. -
"The Wedding People" is a novel about depression, love, one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help her start anew. -
"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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