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Sarah’s 2020 Year in Books

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Sarah Relyea

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Born

Washington, DC, The United States

Website

http://www.sarahrelyea.com

Genre

Fiction, Historical Fiction

Influences

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

Member Since

September 2012

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Sarah Relyea is the author of “Playground Zero,” a novel set in Berkeley in the late 1960s. Sarah left the Berkeley counterculture at age thirteen and processed its effects as a teenager in suburban Los Angeles. She would soon swap California’s psychedelic scene to study English literature at Harvard.

Sarah 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.”

With her PhD in English and American literature from The Graduate Center, CUNY, Sarah has taught American literature and writing at universities in New York and Taiwan. She remains bicoastal, living in Brooklyn, New York and spending time in Northern Ca ...more

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Playground Zero: historical fiction by Sarah Relyea

Playground Zero author event! more info buy book Enjoy a zoom reading and discussion of Playground Zero with author Sarah Relyea Watch now The event was hosted in Mendocino, California, on February 16, 2021. Read more of this blog post »

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Average rating: 4.15 · 20 ratings · 10 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors

	Playground Zero 4.15 avg rating — 20 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 — 7 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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