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Rewriting Eden, Victoria Redel interrogates the idea of paradise within the historical context of borders, exile, and diaspora that brought us to the present global migration crisis. Drawing from a long family history of flight and refuge, the poems in Paradise interweave religion and myth, personal lore and nation-building, borders actual and imagined. They ask: What if what we fell from was never, actually, grace? What is a boundary, really?...

A group of lifetime friends gather together to confront life, love, and now mortality"Everything you want a novel about life, death, and friendship to be-smart, moving, sweeping, poetic, stinging, just beautiful. I loved these women (and their men) and this elegy to their long-reaching bonds."-Dani Shapiro, author of Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage Before Everything is a celebration of friendship and love between a group of women who have kn...

Victoria Redels "Anna und wir" ist ein bewegender Roman über eine innige Frauen-Freundschaft und einen letzten Wunsch. Anna ist eine Kämpferin, stets Vorbild und Halt für ihre Freundinnen. Für Helen, die jahrelang kein Glück mit Männern hatte, für Molly, deren Tochter gegen jeden und alles aufbegehrt, für Ming, deren Leben durch eine Diagnose vollkommen verändert wird, und für Caroline, die sich stets als Außenseiterin fühlt. Doch nun hat An...

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Redel proves that female friendship is the quiet, steady engine that truly runs the world.' Hannah TintiFrom youthful scrapes to mid-life turning points, the Old Friends have faced everything together.So as Anna, their brightest spark, enters hospice, they gather to do what they've always done: they laugh and eat, and help each other make choices and plans, and talk through dilemmas with children and work and love. But now the sense of time ha...

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With a voice that is rooted in the lush, immediate present, Victoria Redel explores the necessity to live and love deeply in her third collection of poems, Woman Without Umbrella.

A group of lifetime friends gather together to confront life, love, and now mortality"Everything you want a novel about life, death, and friendship to be-smart, moving, sweeping, poetic, stinging, just beautiful. I loved these women (and their men) and this elegy to their long-reaching bonds."-Dani Shapiro, author of Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage Before Everything is a celebration of friendship and love between a group of women who have kn...

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A woman is drawn inexorably deeper into her father's past as a World War II refugee in Redel's second novel.Sara Leader, a New York professor, has a substantial to-do list for the summer of 2003: She needs to complete the bottomless pile of paperwork required to adopt a baby from overseas, get moving on a translation of books and papers by influential German philosopher Walter Benjamin and keep a watchful eye on her elderly father, Richard, a ...

The winner of the 1994 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, this manuscript was selected through an open competition of Ohio poets who have not yet published a book. The poems confront significant personal experiences of the journey through a language that is common, yet energised.

The winner of the 1994 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, this manuscript was selected through an open competition of Ohio poets who have not yet published a book. The poems confront significant personal experiences of the journey through a language that is common, yet energised.

At 41, single professor Sara Leader decides to create a family by adopting a child. After the adoption agency asks for details about her background, Sara reluctantly begins to probe her father's secret history -- in particular, his flight as a 17-year-old Holocaust refugee aboard a ship denied entry into America. The more she learns about her father's past, the more Sara feels the need to question him about what happened -- and the more she re...

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In Victoria Redel's mesmerizing first novel, the question of what happens when a mother loves her child too much is deeply and darkly explored. Left with a small fortune by her parents and the cryptic advice, "it would do to find a passion, " Redel's narrator sets out to become a mother--a task she feels she can be adequately passionate about. She conceives her son Paul through a loveless one-night stand, surrounds him with a wonderful, magica...

loverboy"Winner of the S. Mariella Gable Prize "Loverboy" is a fierce and harrowing book, a novel that precisely charts the course of a mother's love so steel-willed and relentless that we have no choice but come to understand the purely rational insanity Victoria Redel examines here. Ms. Redel is a writer whose stories and poems I have long admired, but "Loverboy "shows us all just how dynamic and beautiful and frightening her storytelling ar...