About Helen Bronk
Helen Bronk completed Grub Street’s Novel Incubator in 2016 and continues work on her novel, Trotamundos, an inverted immigration story set in Cusco, Peru. She has traveled throughout Central and South America. Now a professional grantwriter, she spends too much of her spare time reading.
“Is anything…ever only one thing?” asks a character near the end of Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts. Certainly not this warm-hearted novel by Kate Racculia! Wrapped up in a spectacular treasure hunt, the book is part mystery, part Massachusetts-rooted romp,…
Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, The Body Papers by Grace Talusan is a memoir crafted in chisel-sharp language that packs the punch of poetry. Framed within evocative situations that range from making yogurt or crossing…
The Volunteer by Salvatore Scibona is a novel at once global and intensely individual. The setting is Germany, Latvia, Afghanistan, Japan, Vietnam, Australia, Cambodia, and scattered corners of the U.S. The time is near present (2010-11), past (latter 20th century),…
On a recent winter night—dark but not stormy—a dozen writers at various points in their novels gathered over chicken pot pie, roasted vegetables, spinach salad with grapefruit, and chocolate cookies to swap stories and advice about finding a good agent….
Centered around what happens to one family during the summer of 1948, Elizabeth Poliner’s first novel, As Close to Us as Breathing, is a story of loss—whether sudden or creeping—and of memories layered in time. Narrator Molly sifts through mid-life…