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Authors: Sari Wilson
SARI WILSON
has been a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford, a Fine Arts Work Center Fellow in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and has received a residency from The Corporation of Yaddo. Her fiction has appeared in literary journals such as
Agni, Oxford American,
and
Slice,
and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She studied ballet in the 1970s and 1980s at Harkness Ballet and Eliot Feld's New Ballet School, where she was on scholarship. She grew up in a Victorian brownstone in Brooklyn Heights that, when her family bought it, had a coal-burning stove and a dirt-floor kitchen. Sari has lived in San Francisco, Chicago, and Prague, and now lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband, the cartoonist Josh Neufeld, and their daughter.
Girl Through Glass
is her first novel.
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GIRL THROUGH GLASS
“
Girl Through Glass
explores a lost New York through the eyes of a gifted young dancer struggling to harness the ecstatic power she wieldsâover her audience, her family, and the grown man who wants to make her his muse. Lush with the shame and exhilaration that lie at the lip of adolescence, Sari Wilson's debut novel bravely explores the risks of celebrating precocity.”
âMiranda Beverly-Whittemore,
New York Times
bestselling author of
Bittersweet
“Sari Wilson has created a dark and beautiful world in these pages filled with complex and fascinating characters.
Girl Through Glass
is an impressive debut novel that will thrill readers with its steadily mounting tension, which builds, layer upon layer, to a surprising and satisfying conclusion.”
âJohn Searles, bestselling author of
Help for the Haunted
and
Strange But True
“While Sari Wilson's take on the New York City dance scene is pungent and vivid and slyly satirical,
Girl Through Glass
is not a novel about dance. For we never lose sight of the girlâeleven-year-old Mira Able, supremely gifted, mentored and groomed and fêted . . . and desired. This novel of a girl who grows up way too soon is deftly plotted and beautifully written, and is about as suspenseful and affecting as a coming-of-age story can be.”
âDaniel Orozco, author of
Orientation and Other Stories
“An astonishing debut. At once chilling and sensual, furious and tender,
Girl Through Glass
. . . will leave you haunted, mesmerized, and wanting more. I loved it.”
âElizabeth L. Silver, author of
The Execution of Noa P. Singleton
Cover design by Jaya Miceli
Cover photographs: © Getty Images (girl); © Peter Baker / Getty Images (window)
GIRL THROUGH GLASS
is a work of fiction. Any references to real people, historical events, or real places are used fictitiously. When dealing with actual people and locales, as much as possible I tried to conform to the historical record; all else is the product of my imagination.
GIRL THROUGH GLASS
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FIRST EDITION
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EPub Edition JANUARY 2016 ISBN 9780062326294
ISBN: 978-0-06-2326270
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