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Gillian Linden

Biography

Gillian Linden

Gillian Linden is the author of the novel NEGATIVE SPACE and the short story collection REMEMBER HOW I TOLD YOU I LOVED YOU? She holds an MFA from Columbia University, where she won the 2011 Henfield Prize for fiction. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Gillian Linden

Books by Gillian Linden

by Gillian Linden - Fiction, Women's Fiction

NEGATIVE SPACE follows a week in the life of an English teacher at a New York private school. At home, her two increasingly restless children ask constant questions about mortality and find hidden wisdom in the cartoons they watch on television. Her husband tends to his plants and offers occasional counsel between Zoom calls to Hong Kong and Australia. And at school, as she navigates the currents between wealthy, increasingly disconnected students and bewildered faculty, she accidentally witnesses an ambiguous, possibly inappropriate interaction between a teacher and a student. She feels compelled to say something, but how can she be sure of what she saw?