Sari receives a 2019 Bethany Arts Community Residency in support of her next novel. Her residency will include the talk “But It’s Fiction: An Intimate Dialogue Between Fiction and Life.”
Sari receives a residency from the Ragdale Foundation in support of her next novel
Sari interviews best-selling novelist Jean Kwok for HarperCollins and Library Lovefest @ FBLive
Girl Through Glass is translated into Polish. Check out the cover!
Girl Through Glass included in BookBub’s tribute to the “Best New Fiction for Women,by Women”
Girl Through Glass on The New York Times Book Review Paperback Row
Girl Through Glass mentioned by Jerome Robbins Dance Division and Archive of the Recorded Moving Image as an example of notable projects researched at JRDD
Girl Through Glass on HarperCollins Best Books of 2016 list
Girl Through Glass featured on Sweet’s Unsung Hero of 2016: The People Who Tricked Us Into Reading Over and Over Again
Girl Through Glass makes Refinery 29’s Best Books of 2016 So Far
Girl Through Glass on Bustle’s Best Literary Debut Novels Written By Women in the Last 5 Years
Girl Through Glass makes longlist for The Center For Fiction’s First Novel Prize
Girl Through Glass is #3 on The Millions Top Ten Books List for June
Girl Through Glass makes Bookish Buzz’s Most Exciting Books of 2016 list
Girl Through Glass is a Woman’s World
June Book Club pick
Girl Through Glass discussed at length in The Los Angeles Review of Books
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Sari publishes an essay on moving from dance to writing on Catapult
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Sari discusses the ten-year novel on Literary Speaking
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Girl Through Glass reviewed in the Toronto Globe and Mail
“Often in novels that weave past and present, the present drags, but not so here. A dramatic, evocative novel about a girl under glass and a woman breaking through.”
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Girl Through Glass mentioned in The Charlotte Observer
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Girl Through Glass joins the ranks of lost girls in The Millions
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Girl Through Glass reviewed by Inside Ballet Technique
“Sari’s writing is a thing of beauty; her expressions are refreshing and original.”
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Sari Wilson talks about ballet and Brooklyn with The Boston Globe
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Girl Through Glass is a Skimm Read: “Center Stage” meets “Black Swan”
“Center Stage” meets “Black Swan.” About a ballerina prodigy who puts that barre class you took to shame. Includes a questionable relationship with her mentor and a lot of competitive drama. Shut up and dance-slash-read.”
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Pure Wow includes Girl Through Glass in 7 New Novels About NYC You Need to Read
Girl Through Glass discussed on Book Talk
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Girl Through Glass makes The National Book Review’s “5 Hot Books” list
“This psychologically complex debut….deftly braids the stories together in an intense, engrossing novel.”
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Girl Through Glass appears on The New York Times shortlist of first novels.
“Wilson skillfully details the world of her teenage dancer….The book’s subject is less the ballet itself than the costs of early virtuosity—the feeling of being propelled by a force you don’t understand and can’t control—and the dangerous intoxication of the perfect, weightless moments when everything but ‘air, motion, height’ falls away.”
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The Maggie Linton Show interviews Sari about Girl Through Glass
Joe Donahue’s The Roundtable (WAMC) interviews Sari about Girl Through Glass
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Sari publishes “What New Yorkers Learn From Actually Having to Meet Their Neighbors” in New York Magazine
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Books on the Table interviews Sari
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Saratoga Today features Girl Through Glass in “A Childhood Love Letter to Ballet.”
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Girl Through Glass makes The Co-operative Travel UK’s Best Holiday Reads 2016 shortlist
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Sari
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Chicago Review of Books interviews Sari
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People calls Girl Through Glass “Intense and mesmerizing” (2.15.16)
The Week names Girl Through Glass one of “28 books to read in 2016”
“Weaving together past and present, Girl Through Glass is a complex coming-of-age debut.”
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The Washington Post reviews Girl Through Glass
“Artfully rendered through the viewpoint of an adolescent dancer who performs with great maturity while remaining fatefully naïve…. So visceral, so real…. [A] tragic depiction of a girl adored far too soon by a grown-up world.”
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Sari interviewed by Claudia Cragg of Chatting Up a Storm
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NPR’s All Things Considered interviews Sari about Girl Through Glass
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Glamour plugs Girl Through Glass
“Even the non-dance-obsessed will become entranced with the interweaving stories of 11-year-old Mira … and Kate…. Their relationships, their pasts, and their quests for perfection are written as beautifully as the most graceful pas de deux.”
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Marrie Stone of Writers on Writing interviews Sari about Girl Through Glass
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Girl Through Glass on Buzzfeed’s Most Exciting Books of 2016 list
Girl Through Glass on The Millions Most Anticipated 2016 fiction list
Kirkus reviews Girl Through Glass
“This portrayal of a ballerina’s transformation and sacrifice burns with the beauty of fire: it’s powerful, it’s destructive, and it dares you to try and look away.”
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The New York Times publishes “My Nutcracker Recovery” (reprinted in the Sunday paper as “Nutcracker Season”)
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Girl Through Glass selected as The Rumpus Book Club book
Publishers Weekly reviews Girl Through Glass
“Uniformly engrossing…Mira and Maurice’s relationship has the fairy tale feel of Beauty and the Beast, but the pages brim with the realism of gritty, crime-riddled New York…Surprising and bittersweet…Elevates the coming-of-age story with a dark undercurrent about the cost of obsession.” — Publishers Weekly
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Girl Through Glass gets a starred review in Booklist
“…a nimble, nuanced psychological drama that leaps through time and place with an appropriate and assured agility. Once a ballerina herself, Wilson speaks with vibrant authority and acute vulnerability as she exposes the conflicted and competitive behind-the-scenes world of professional ballet.”— Booklist
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Girl Through Glass is mentioned in Publishers Weekly as a “hot title”
“Among J&N’s top fiction titles this year is . . . . Wallace Stegner fellow Sari Wilson’s debut novel, Girl Through Glass (HarperCollins, Jan. 2016), [which] “illuminates the costs of ambition, and the desire for beauty,” per the agency. The book was pre-empted by HarperCollins in the U.S.”