Victoria Redel, Author . Counterpoint $24.95 (327p) ISBN 978-1-58243-366-0
In 1940, Itzak Lejdel, a teenage Jewish refugee from Brussels being
\t\t held aboard a ship docked in Virginia, is one of 86 passengers whose visas have
\t\t been rejected and are about to be returned to Nazi-occupied Europe. Itzak
\t\t writes a...
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Victoria Redel, Author Graywolf Press $21.95 (208p) ISBN 978-1-55597-322-3
In Redel's controlled and convincing tale of a mother's obsession for her child, the first-person narrator endangers the life of her grade-school son, then asks rhetorically, ""Has a mother ever loved a child more?"" It is a disturbing question,...
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Victoria Redel, Author Alfred A. Knopf $20 (171p) ISBN 978-0-679-42071-2
Redel's stories connect locations on past and present emotional maps as she relates tales of family life among Russian immigrants and their American-born children. The perspectives are mostly those of mothers and daughters; the prose is bare-bones...
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Victoria Redel. Four Way (UPNE, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (88p) ISBN 978-1-935536-24-6
Winning and elegant at its best, unified and honest throughout, this third collection from Redel (Swoon) follows the poet and a brace of her characters through romantic and familial episodes, from youth to late middle age, from moments when...
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Victoria Redel. Four Way (UPNE, dist.), $17.95 trade paper (200p) ISBN 978-1-935536-37-6
Morally ambivalent characters contend with romantic relationships, raising children, and the dark side of human nature in Redel’s (The Border of Truth) second collection of stories. Beginning with “You Look Like You Do,” a divorced mother’s...
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Victoria Redel. Viking, $26 (288p) ISBN 978-0-735222-5-71
In this touching story of friendship and loss, five very close friends come together to relive a lifetime of memories when a member of their close-knit tribe enters hospice care after a long battle with cancer. Each woman has a resonant relationship
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Victoria Redel. Four Way, $16.95 trade paper (96p) ISBN 978-1-954245-13-6
The stunning fourth collection from Redel (Woman Without Umbrella) is her most ambitious yet, a reflection on exile, migration, and diaspora that is at once intimate and sweeping. Drawing on family histories known and imagined, the poet ranges...
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Victoria Redel. Zando/SJP, $28 (304p) ISBN 978-1-63893-206-2
Redel’s sensuous latest (after Paradise) explores the fraught relationship between Dutch Golden Age painter Maria van Oosterwijck and Gerta Pieters, her servant turned apprentice. Gerta enters Maria’s household disguised as a boy named Pieter,...
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