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Sarah Relyea

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Born

Washington, DC, The United States

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http://www.sarahrelyea.com

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Fiction, Historical Fiction

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Margaret Atwood, Elena Ferrante, Janet Fitch, James Baldwin, Jef ...more

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Sarah Relyea is the author of Playground Zero, a novel set in the late 1960s. Sarah grew up in Berkeley during the counterculture movement of the 1960s. As a young girl, she went to the infamous Altamont concert and frequented Telegraph Avenue. She would soon swap California's psychedelic scene for studying English literature at Harvard. A PhD who has taught at universities in New York and Taiwan, she has long addressed questions of identity in her writing, including in her book of literary criticism, Outsider Citizens: The Remaking of Postwar Identity in Wright, Beauvoir, and Baldwin. Sarah lives in Brooklyn, New York, but she spends time in Northern California. ...more

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Begin with Part 1: Finding Ariel Part 5: Ariel Returns Though New York City had been overwhelmed by the early pandemic, Robin and I had been weirdly spared: so far, we’d lost no one to its ravages. No one we knew had been in grave danger, at least not from the disease itself, though […] Read more of this blog post »

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Average rating: 3.61 · 41 ratings · 16 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors

	Playground Zero 3.61 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Outsider Citizens: The Remaking of Postwar Identity in Wright, Beauvoir, and Baldwin 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2005 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Sarah Relyea rated a book it was amazing Broadsided in Bali by Kate McVaugh (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
McVaugh’s unpredictable plot and amusingly offbeat characters made it hard to put this book down. Raquel and Magdelene come to Bali hoping for a few days of fun and coffee-fueled shopping. These seasoned travelers are staying at the Lotus Yoga Resort ...more
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Sarah Relyea rated a book it was amazing Rocked in Time (Resistance Trilogy, Vol.III) by Charles Degelman (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Degelman’s novel is a humorous and insightful story about the late 1960s and its edgy blend of art, politics, and sexual discovery. I was immediately engaged by the central character, a young man whose search for intelligent life beyond the stuffy Iv ...more
Dec 16, 2022 12:22PM · 1 like · like · see review