Rivka Galchen
Canadian-American novelist and essayist whose Atmospheric Disturbances is a debut of philosophical wit and originality. Her fiction explores parenthood, illness, and reality with a distinctive comic sensibility. She is one of the most intellectually distinctive voices in contemporary American fiction.
Works
- Atmospheric DisturbancesPsychiatrist becomes unmoored when his wife is replaced by an imposter
- American InnovationsStories of strange inventions and innovations across American history
- Little LaborsMeditation on motherhood through observations of ordinary infant moments
- Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a WitchWoman accused of witchcraft in seventeenth-century German village
- Rat Rule 79