Sarah Ruiz-Grossman

Los Angeles

Writer and Novelist at Freelance

author of A FIRE SO WILD 📕 formerly @HuffPost

Articles

Black Agenda Report

Jan 14, 2025 | blackagendareport.com | Ann Garrison |Raymond Turner |Adam Mahoney |Sarah Ruiz-Grossman

In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured authors are Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis. Rosenthal is a writer and co-founder of the L.A. Tenants Union. Vilchis has been organizing tenants in Boyle Heights for more than thirty years and is co-founder of the L.A. Tenants Union. Their book is Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis. We interviewed Tracy Rosenthal about their book.
Review: A searching debut novel about a California community changed by wildfire

Feb 25, 2024 | sandiegouniontribune.com | Kayla Maiuri |Sarah Ruiz-Grossman

In her bracing debut novel, “A Fire So Wild,” Sarah Ruiz-Grossman chronicles a community in Berkeley, California, on the brink of personal and environmental calamity as a wildfire threatens life as they know it. The story follows a diverse cast, each character navigating his or her own private crises, be they marital, economic or existential. We open with Abigail, an out-of-touch affordable housing advocate nearing her 50th birthday, contemplating her career during a morning swim in Lake Anza.
When The Suspense Comes From Our Climate Apocalypse

Feb 19, 2024 | crimereads.com | Sarah Ruiz-Grossman

Just weeks after I moved from my hometown of New York City to the California Bay Area in fall 2017, I woke up to smoky skies. On my way to work at HuffPost’s office in downtown San Francisco, I passed people with scarves clenched over their mouths, N95 masks on, years before the pandemic would make this a common sight.
Review: Novel lays bare society's injustice amid Berkeley firestorm

Feb 16, 2024 | datebook.sfchronicle.com | Sarah Ruiz-Grossman |Kevin Canfield

“A Fire So Wild” by Sarah Ruiz-Grossman. Photo: HarperSarah Ruiz-Grossman’s new novel features a diverse cast of Northern Californians wrestling with a host of pressing societal problems, from climate change and income inequality to racial discrimination and sexual assault. The first-time author tosses lots of narrative balls into the air, and she doesn’t keep them all aloft.
What To Read When The World Is On Fire - The Rumpus

Feb 9, 2024 | therumpus.net | Sarah Ruiz-Grossman

Last year was officially the hottest year on record. Deadly wildfires tore through Maui and Canada. Orange skies hung over New York City full of smoke and ash. Extreme floods swept through Greece, Italy, and other parts of Europe. Historic heat waves hit China and much of the U.S., with Phoenix, Arizona, reaching over 110 Fahrenheit for 20 days straight.
Change by Édouard Louis

Dec 19, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Emmanuel Carrere |Édouard Louis |Sarah Ruiz-Grossman

Édouard Louis, trans. from the French by John Lambert. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27 (256p) ISBN 978-0-374-60680-0Louis (The End of Eddy) returns with another scorching autobiographical novel, this time drawing on his efforts to break out of isolation and poverty. Eddy Bellegueule (Louis’s birth name) grows up in a rural French village rife with racial tension and violence, where his family often has to beg for food.
Green Frog: And Other Stories

Dec 19, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Sarah Ruiz-Grossman |Paul Theroux |Liliana Colanzi |Tommy Orange

Gina Chung. Vintage, $17 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-0-5934-6936-1Chung’s dynamic collection (after the novel Sea Change) employs various genres and styles to illuminate her Korean American characters’ grief and regret.
Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel

Dec 15, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Rita Bullwinkel |Sarah Ruiz-Grossman |Paul Theroux |Liliana Colanzi

Rita Bullwinkel. Viking, $28 (224p) ISBN 978-0-593-65410-1The smashing debut novel from Bullwinkel (after the collection Belly Up) takes the measure of eight teenage girls as they compete at a boxing tournament in Reno, Nev. The first match features Andi Taylor, troubled by memories of the boy who drowned at a community pool during her lifeguard shift, up against Artemis Victor, who’s from a family of fighters and is looking to show up her accomplished older sister.
Clear by Carys Davies

Dec 14, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Carys Davies |Sarah Ruiz-Grossman |Paul Theroux |Liliana Colanzi

Carys Davies. Scribner, $24 (208p) ISBN 978-1-66803-066-0A minister’s conscience is tested in the perceptive and beautiful latest from Davies (The Mission House). In 1847 Scotland, John Fergusen has recently broken from the Church of Scotland as part of a movement to form the Free Church, which aims to be independent from the influence of landowners. It’s also lacking in funds and unable to pay salaries to its leaders.
Daybreak by Matt Gallagher

Dec 14, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Matt Gallagher |Sarah Ruiz-Grossman |Paul Theroux |Liliana Colanzi

Matt Gallagher. Atria, $26.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-5011-7785-9Gallagher (Empire City) returns with an affecting chronicle of a former U.S. soldier who finds meaning by joining Ukraine’s fight against Russia. Five years out of the Army and at loose ends, Luke Paxton accompanies his fellow Afghanistan veteran, Han Lee, to Ukraine in winter 2022, shortly after the Russian invasion. Arriving in Lviv, Pax looks up his former lover, Svitlana, whom he met in Milan in between tours in Afghanistan.