Charting by the Stars

Ms. Magazine called Charting by the Stars “… a memorable account of growing up … about the ways we invent and reinvent ourselves … reminiscent of Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing.” Linsey Abrams’ passionate and eloquent first novel chronicles one girl’s coming of age, from a 1950s childhood into the ’60s world of New York. Her love affair with another woman begins a profound shift of identity and world. The New York Times said of this nationally reviewed novel: “Abrams has a superb talent for the specific … She [has] her own style—a mixture of introspection, common sense, daydreaming and recollection—and controls it beautifully.”