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Jenny Bartoy

Biography

Jenny Bartoy

Jenny Bartoy is a French American editor and critic. Her writing appears in several anthologies and in such publications as The Boston Globe, The Seattle Times, Under the Gum Tree, Room, Chicago Review of Books, CrimeReads and The Rumpus, among others. She holds a master's degree from Columbia University and lives in Tacoma, Washington.

Jenny Bartoy

Books by Jenny Bartoy

No Contact: Writers on Estrangement
edited by Jenny Bartoy - Essays, Nonfiction

Estrangement presents an essential existential question: who are we without our family? What kind of person cuts the proverbial umbilical cord and why? And who do we become, once untethered from our kin? Through 32 intimate, first-person accounts, NO CONTACT counters the prevalent trope of reconciliation as a happy ending, focusing instead on the complex grief, healing and authenticity found in the rupture from family.