CAROL ZOREF is a fiction writer and essayist. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and New York University. She lives in New York City.
"What isn't Carol Zoref's remarkable first novel about? Set on a
tiny, precarious, repugnant and rank splinter of land where New
York City's dead horses were once rendered into grease, her book is
nevertheless rich with family, friendship, romance and incipient
moral consciousness on a tiny precarious planet with the smell of
fascism in the air. In every way that matters, Barren Island is
abundant."--Melvin Jules Bukiet, author of After and Strange Fire
(1/1/2017 12:00:00 AM)
"What's extraordinary about Barren Island isn't just its wild
corner of history--a shoal off the shores of Brooklyn, whose
factory boils down animal carcasses for 'glue and grease'--but its
remarkable imagining of the lives of families there. At its center
is a resourceful young girl coming of age, and the novel does what
only fiction can do--it presents the human intricacies we could
hardly guess. An amazing piece of work."--Joan Silber, National
Book Award Finalist for Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories, and the
PEN/Hemingway Award for Household Words (1/1/2017 12:00:00 AM)
"With warmth, intelligence, and a wryly humane voice, Carol Zoref
gives us an unforgettable heroine and shines a light on a forgotten
chapter of the American story. Richly atmospheric and deeply
tender, Barren Island is a thought-provoking pleasure."--Brian
Morton, author of Starting Out in the Evening and Florence Gordon
(1/1/2017 12:00:00 AM)
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