Jennifer duBois
Jennifer duBois (born 1983) is an American novelist. She won a 2012 Whiting Award.[1]
Life
She graduated from Tufts University, and from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. She teaches at Texas State University.[2]
Her work appeared in Narrative,[3] The Missouri Review.[4]
Works
- A Partial History of Lost Causes: A Novel. Random House Publishing Group. 20 March 2012. ISBN 978-0-679-60474-7.[5]
- Cartwheel: A Novel. Random House Publishing Group. 24 September 2013. ISBN 978-0-8129-9587-9.[6][7][8]
References
- ^ "Jennifer duBois - WHITING AWARDS". whiting.org. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
- ^ "Department of English". txstate.edu. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
- ^ "Jennifer duBois". Narrative Magazine. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
- ^ "Jennifer duBois". TMR Content Archives. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
- ^ Bennett, Laura (2012-03-16). "Jennifer duBois's Debut Novel". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2015-09-18.
The final chapters let both Irina and Aleksandr off easy. It's a surprisingly happy ending for a book that purports to teach us how to live when the possibility of a happy ending is foreclosed. But it turns out there are forces bigger than a human life: there are causes, there are movements, there is history. Irina's mistake is failing to see that she cannot be sure of her particular outcome after all.
- ^ "Cartwheel by Jennifer duBois". Kirkus Reviews.
A tangled tale that leaves protagonist Lily, and the crime, unilluminated.
- ^ "Thoughts on Jennifer duBois's Second Novel, Cartwheel". The Austin Review. Retrieved 2015-09-18.
DuBois asks us not only to examine our personal narratives, but to consider how our collective ones are constructed—both the fictional and the real ones.
- ^ "'Cartwheel' uses fiction to re-examine Amanda Knox case". USA Today. Retrieved 2015-09-18.
Written in a straightforward style, Cartwheel can be harrowing. It has elements of a haunting page turner. But it's hard to separate genuine intrigue from salacious topicality— and fortuitous timing with Knox back in the news, announcing she won't return to Italy for an upcoming retrial.
