Sarah Blake, Author . Putnam/Amy Einhorn $25.95 (326p) ISBN 978-0-399-15619-9
Weaving together the stories of three very different women loosely tied to each other, debut novelist Blake takes readers back and forth between small town America and war-torn Europe in 1940. Single, 40-year-old postmistress Iris James and young...
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Sarah Blake, Author Picador USA $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-24544-3
The language, mores and class distinctions of 19th-century society are faithfully rendered in this atmospheric if overstuffed approximation of a Victorian novel, evoking a fashionable hotel on the coast of Maine in the summer of 1896. Grange House...
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Sarah Blake. Wesleyan Univ., $15.95 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-0-8195-7765-8
Blake (Mr. West) examines Earth’s monsters, fear, and loss of fear as she turns her attention to new worlds. Broken into two sections, the book begins with a series of highly attractive poems that dwell in the mundane and are edged with something...
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Sarah Blake. Riverhead, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-0-525-53633-8
Blake reimagines the story of Noah’s Ark from the perspective of Noah’s wife, Naamah, in her inventive but erratic debut. As Blake envisions her, Naamah is a practical woman. During the Ark’s construction, it is Naamah who remembers to stow buckets...
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Sarah Blake. Flatiron, $27.99 (448p) ISBN 978-1-250-11025-1
Blake (The Postmistress) tells the history of the privileged Milton family from 1935 to present day in this powerful family saga. In 1935 New York, Kitty Milton, wife of Ogden, is enjoying the life of a New York society wife with her three children—f
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Sarah Blake. Algonquin, $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-64375-106-1
Blake’s fascinating, idiosyncratic second novel (after 2019’s Namaah) constructs a haunting postapocalyptic world with which a withdrawn woman must finally come to terms when someone starts killing local families. In 2032, trees began producing more
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