Name Mary Rakow Role Novelist | Books The memory room | |
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Education Harvard University, Harvard Divinity School Awards Lannan Literary Fellowship | ||
Mary rakow a reading of selections from this is why i came
Mary Rakow is an American novelist.
Contents
- Mary rakow a reading of selections from this is why i came
- Life
- Awards
- Works
- Anthology
- Theology
- Reviews
- References
Life
She graduated from University of California, Riverside, in 1970, from Harvard University with a master's degree in Theological Studies, and from Boston College with a Ph.D. in Theology. Her work has appeared in Works & Conversations. She has appeared on Writers on Writing, with Barbara DeMarco-Barrett KUCI-FM.
Rakow is a member of PEN Center USA/West, where she has mentored in the PEN Rosenthal Emerging Voices Program.
She is a native Californian living in San Francisco.
Awards
Works
Anthology
Theology
Reviews
Now this is a book that dives deep into the wreck, a book in which it is always in question whether Barbara, the protagonist, will ever be able to make sense of the moral evil at the heart of her childhood, an evil she repressed for a very long time. The book is formally daring, it is utterly disinterested in the usual cause-and-effect conceits of traditional mainstream narration, opting instead for a collage of Barbara's perception, memory, and evasion of memory, interspersed with fragments of Paul Celan and the Psalms. This is a harrowing, stunning novel.