Binary Star by Gerard, Sarah
Binary Star by Gerard, Sarah

Binary Star

*Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist.*A Best Book of 2015 --NPR, BuzzFeed, Vanity Fair, Flavorwire, Largehearted Boy"Rhythmic,...
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Author: Sarah Gerard
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Binary Star by Gerard, Sarah

Binary Star

$36.25
Binary Star by Gerard, Sarah

Binary Star

$36.25
Author: Sarah Gerard
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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*Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist.
*A Best Book of 2015 --NPR, BuzzFeed, Vanity Fair, Flavorwire, Largehearted Boy

"Rhythmic, hallucinatory, yet vivid as crystal. Gerard has channeled her trials and tribulations into a work of heightened reality, one that sings to the lonely gravity of the human body." --NPR

The language of the stars is the language of the body. Like a star, the anorexic burns fuel that isn't replenished; she is held together by her own gravity.

With luminous, lyrical prose, Binary Star is an impassioned account of a young woman struggling with anorexia and her long-distance, alcoholic boyfriend. On a road-trip circumnavigating the United States, they stumble into a book on veganarchism, and believe they've found a direction.

Binary Star is an intense, fast-moving saga of two young lovers and the culture that keeps them sick (or at least inundated with quick-fix solutions); a society that sells diet pills, sleeping pills, magazines that profile celebrities who lose weight or too much weight or put on weight, and books that pimp diet secrets or recipes for success.

"The particular genius of Binary Star is that out of such grim material in constructs beauty. It's like a novel-shaped poem about addiction, codependence and the relentlessness of the everyday, a kind of elegy of emptiness." --New York Times Book Review



Author: Sarah Gerard
Publisher: Two Dollar Radio
Published: 01/13/2015
Pages: 172
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.40h x 5.50w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781937512255


Award: L.A. Times Book Prize - Finalist


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 12/08/2014
Library Journal 03/01/2015 pg. 82
New York Times Book Review 02/22/2015 pg. 34

About the Author
Sarah Gerard is the author of the essay collection Sunshine State, a New York Times critics' choice, the novel Binary Star, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times first fiction prize, and two chapbooks. Her short stories, essays, interviews, and criticism have appeared in The New York Times, Granta, The Baffler, Vice, BOMB Magazine, and other journals, as well as anthologies. Her paper collages have appeared in Hazlitt, BOMB Magazine, Epiphany Magazine, No Tokens Journal, and the Blue Earth Review. Recycle, a book of collages and text co-authored with the writer and artist Amy Gall, was published by Pacific in 2018. Her column Mouthful, published by Hazlitt, explored her relationship with food ten years into recovery from anorexia. She's been supported by scholarships and fellowships from Yaddo, Tin House, PlatteForum, and Ucross.
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