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Commentary: How Jeremiah Program Serves Single Moms

Jan 27, 2025 | womenspress.com | Gillian Linden |Mikki Morrissette

Minnesota Women’s Press is sharing this commentary as part of January’s National Poverty in America Awareness month. In the United States, 42 million people are living in poverty, including nearly 40 percent of single-mother households. One in three individuals who experienced poverty as children will remain in poverty as adults.
Negative Space by Gillian Linden

Oct 30, 2024 | worldliteraturetoday.org | Gillian Linden

This page is available to subscribers. Click here to sign in or get access. New York. W. W. Norton. 2024. 176 pages. Liminality is a term used in anthropology to describe the quandary mode being experienced by humans during the middle stage of a rite of passage. This state of existence, in which the participants do not belong to either the prerite or the postrite condition, is marked by equivocation, self-doubt, and confusion. They occupy the in-between space, feeling lost and perturbed.
Negative Space | Bookreporter.com

Apr 20, 2024 | bookreporter.com | Gillian Linden

In the days when the world began to open up again after the COVID lockdown, a new stage of anxiety and trepidation took hold. People felt raw and craved connection, but they were still afraid of what those connections might bring. Gillian Linden’s thoughtful debut novel explores relationships and the return to the mundane as the pandemic crisis abates yet lingers.
Parenting in a Pandemic, and Other Tales of Woe

Apr 16, 2024 | nytimes.com | Negative Space |Gillian Linden

What to Read Find Your Next Book Spring Fiction Preview Spring Nonfiction Preview April Releases 22 Funny Novels What to Read Find Your Next Book Spring Fiction Preview Spring Nonfiction Preview April Releases 22 Funny Novels Gillian Linden's slim debut novel, "Negative Space," explores the being and nothingness of modern motherhood.
Book Marks reviews of Negative Space by Gillian Linden

Apr 16, 2024 | bookmarks.reviews | Gillian Linden |Lynn Steger Strong |Sam Sacks |Thomas Beller

Publisher W. W. Norton & Company Date A novel about a young mother navigating the instabilities of teaching, parenting, and marriage in the wake of the pandemic. What is this?
“Negative Space,” Gillian Linden's Debut Novel: Book Review

Apr 12, 2024 | airmail.news | Thomas Beller |Negative Space |Gillian Linden

Negative Space by Gillian Linden Gillian Linden’s beguiling, vexing, and exhilarating debut novel, Negative Space, is a spare, almost austere book, whose unnamed narrator is a teacher at a private school in Brooklyn, a place with high expectations and no grades. Her husband, Nicholas, is a nice enough businessman who is doing well, but not so well that they can actually afford to send their own children to the school where she teaches.
A Nudge or a Nuzzle | Gillian Linden

Apr 9, 2024 | nplusonemag.com | Gillian Linden

The following is an excerpt from Negative Space, out next week from W. W. Norton. There wasn’t time for the students to read their work, which disappointed no one. “Finish these tonight,” I said. “Bring them in tomorrow.”“I’m done,” Eloise said. “Can I hand it in now?”“Give it a once-over tonight,” I said. “It’s really done.” But she closed her laptop. Henri turned his laptop to show me his screen: a field of white, a few thin paragraphs, amply spaced. “Is this enough?” he said.