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Reimagines the lives of the Bronte siblings - Charlotte, Emily, Anne, and brother Branwell - from their precocious childhoods, to the writing of their great novels, to their early deaths.. A form-shattering novel by an author praised as "laugh-out-loud hilarious and thought-provokingly philosophical" (Boston Globe) .. How did sisters Emily, Charlotte, and Anne write literary landmarks Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and Agnes Grey? What in their lives and circumstances, in the choices they made, and in their close but complex relationships with one another made such greatness possible? In her new novel, Rachel Cantor melds biographical fact with unruly invention to illuminate the siblings' genius, their bonds of love and duty, periods of furious creativity, and the ongoing tolls of illness, isolation, and loss.
About the Author
I am the author of the forthcoming novel Good on Paper (Melville House 2016) and the novel A Highly Unlikely Scenario, or a Neetsa Pizza Employee's Guide to Saving the World (Melville House 2014) . I live in New York, city of my heart, in the writerly borough of Brooklyn, but have at various points made my home in most U.S. states between Virginia and Vermont. In addition to writing fiction, I freelance as a writer for nonprofits that work in developing countries. In that capacity, I've worked everywhere from Azerbaijan to Zimbabwe (most recently in Laos, Nigeria, and Senegal) . I spent much of my adolescence in Rome, and as a young one, I wandered the world, working on food festivals in Melbourne, Australia, and European jazz festivals in France; living in rural Gujarat while volunteering for a Gandhian nonprofit; and teaching Afghan women refugees in Peshwar, Pakistan. I am a native New Englander; my love for the Boston Red Sox is fanatical. My stories have appeared in magazines such as the Paris Review, One Story, Ninth Letter, Kenyon Review, and New England Review. They have been anthologized, nominated for three Pushcart Prizes, short-listed by both the O. Henry Awards and Best American Short Stories, and awarded runner-up Bridport and Graywolf/SLS Prizes. I have also been awarded fellowships to more than a dozen artists' colonies, both in the U.S. and abroad. I am, always, at work on another book.
