Charting by the Stars

Linsey Abrams

Mey 2016 · Open Road Media

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Ms. magazine called Charting by the Stars “a memorable account of growing up about the ways we invent and reinvent ourselves reminiscent of Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing.” Linsey Abrams’ passionate and eloquent first novel chronicles one girl’s coming of age, from a 1950s childhood into the ’60s world of New York. Her love affair with another woman begins a profound shift of identity and world. The New York Times said of this nationally reviewed novel: “Abrams has a superb talent for the specific. . . . She [has] her own style—a mixture of introspection, common sense, daydreaming and recollection-and controls it beautifully.”

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Linsey Abrams has published the novels Charting by the Stars, Double Vision, and Our History in New York. Her stories have appeared in the Editor’s Choice and Pushcart anthologies, her essays and reviews in The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, among other publications. She directs the MFA program in Creative Writing at the City College of New York.