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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

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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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Hippies to Yuppies: Troubled Protagonists in San Francisco. View the book event!

Book event: Playground Zero and Blithedale Canyon

Recorded book event with Sarah Relyea and Michael Bourne! Enjoy a reading and discussion of my 1960s coming-of-age novel, Playground Zero, and Michael Bourne’s Blithedale Canyon, set in 2001. Our novels unfold amidst the upheaval and gentrification of Bay Area neighborhoods. Some characters struggle to make sense of the 1960s world of revolutionaries and dream-makers, […] Read more of this blog post »

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Average rating: 3.32 · 76 ratings · 23 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors

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