A Town of Empty Rooms by Bender, Karen E.
A Town of Empty Rooms by Bender, Karen E.

A Town of Empty Rooms

Karen E. Bender burst on to the literary scene a decade ago with her luminous first novel,...
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Author: Karen E. Bender
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A Town of Empty Rooms by Bender, Karen E.

A Town of Empty Rooms

$249.72
A Town of Empty Rooms by Bender, Karen E.

A Town of Empty Rooms

$249.72
Author: Karen E. Bender
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
Karen E. Bender burst on to the literary scene a decade ago with her luminous first novel, Like Normal People, which garnered remarkable acclaim.

A Town of Empty Rooms presents the story of Serena and Dan Shine, estranged from one another as they separately grieve over the recent loss of Serena's father and Dan's older brother. Serena's actions cause the couple and their two small children to be banished from New York City, and they settle in the only town that will offer Dan employment: Waring, North Carolina. There, in the Bible belt of America, Serena becomes enmeshed with the small Jewish congregation in town led by an esoteric rabbi, whose increasingly erratic behavior threatens the future of his flock. Dan and their young son are drawn into the Boy Scouts by their mysterious and vigilant neighbor, who may not have their best intentions at heart. Tensions accrue when matters of faith, identity, community, and family all fall into the crosshairs of contemporary, small-town America. A Town of Empty Rooms presents a fascinating insight into the lengths we will go to discover just where we belong.

Author: Karen E. Bender
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Published: 12/01/2013
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.60w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781619022744

About the Author
Karen E. Bender is the author of the novels Like Normal People and A Town of Empty Rooms. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Zoetrope, Ploughshares, Story, Harvard Review, The Iowa Review, and other magazines. Her stories have been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, Best American Mystery Stories, New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, and have won two Pushcart prizes. She has won grants from the Rona Jaffe Foundation and the NEA. She is also co-editor of the anthology Choice: True Stories of Birth, Contraception, Infertility, Adoption, Single Parenthood, and Abortion. She has taught creative writing at Antioch University Los Angeles, the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, and Tunghai University in Taiwan. She lives in North Carolina with her husband, novelist Robert Anthony Siegel, and their two children.
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