Binary Star, Sarah Gerard
Binary Star, Sarah Gerard
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Binary Star
A Novel

Author: Sarah Gerard

Narrator: Sarah Gerard

Unabridged: 3 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Lantern Audio

Published: 04/06/2015

Categories: Fiction, Psychological


Synopsis

The language of the stars is the language of the body. Like a star, the anorexic burns fuel that isn't replenished; she is held together by her own gravity. With luminous, lyrical prose, Binary Star is an impassioned account of a young woman struggling with anorexia and her long-distance, alcoholic boyfriend. On a road trip circumnavigating the United States, they stumble into a book on veganarchism, and believe they've found a direction. Binary Star is an intense, fast-moving saga of two young lovers and the culture that keeps them sick or at least inundated with quick-fix solutions; a society that sells diet pills, sleeping pills, magazines that profile celebrities who lose weight or too much weight or put on weight, and books that pimp diet secrets or recipes for success.

About Sarah Gerard

Sarah Gerard is the author of the essay collection Sunshine State, which was longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, and the novel Binary Star, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. Her short stories, essays, interviews, and criticism have appeared in the New York Times, T Magazine, Granta, The Baffler, Vice, and the anthologies Tampa Noir, We Can’t Help it if We’re From Florida, and One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism. She lives in New York City with her true love, the writer Patrick Cottrell. Find her at Sarah-Gerard.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Eva on March 09, 2015

I first read Gerard in a NY Times Op-Ed piece "Anorexia and Escape" (see: [URL not allowed]). And frankly I think she does herself an enormous disservice in having written this ostensibly as fiction. Her autobiographical voice is much stronger and doesn't rely on a somewhat fl......more

Goodreads review by Edward on September 23, 2016

This is an interesting little novel that only takes a couple hours to read. Living inside a disease. That's what this novel is. It is, I think, about emotion and connection, but because the disease at the heart of the novel and the diseases at the core of the relationship it revolves around are so mu......more

Goodreads review by Edward on June 22, 2018

This book was terrifying. Because she had an eating disorder and she is such a gifted writer, Gerard gets as close as possible to making you feel what it is like without having one yourself. I read the author is doing well and it is my hope she continues to be successful in fighting this insidious di......more

Goodreads review by emily on February 06, 2015

RATING: 2.5 generally, i give a rating based on a gut reaction immediately after finishing a book. in this case, it was a little more difficult because i had so many conflicting feelings while reading this, but my final thought was that i was pleasantly surprised by not hating it as much as i had ant......more

Goodreads review by Tosh on January 10, 2015

Any novel that starts off with a quote from Raoul Vaneigem is OK with me. The quote: "Down with a world in which the guarantee that we will not die of starvation has been purchased by the guarantee that we will die of boredom." This quotation sets the book in its proper light, considering the first......more