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Rebecca Dinerstein Knight

Biography

Rebecca Dinerstein Knight

Rebecca Dinerstein Knight is the author of two novels, HEX and THE SUNLIT NIGHT, and a collection of poems, LOFOTEN. Her screenplay adaptation of THE SUNLIT NIGHT premiered as a feature film at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. Knight has reviewed restaurants for The Village Voice and novels for The New York Times Book Review, and her essays have appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times, among others. A graduate of Yale and the NYU MFA program, Rebecca Dinerstein Knight is the recipient of a Wallant Award for Jewish Literature. She lives and writes in New Hampshire.

Rebecca Dinerstein Knight

Books by Rebecca Dinerstein Knight

Hex
by Rebecca Dinerstein Knight - Fiction, Women's Fiction

Nell Barber, an expelled PhD candidate in biological science, is exploring the fine line between poison and antidote, working alone to set a speed record for the detoxification of poisonous plants. Her mentor, Dr. Joan Kallas, is the hero of Nell's heart. Nell frequently finds herself standing in the doorway to Joan's office despite herself, mesmerized by Joan's elegance, success and spiritual force. Surrounded by Nell's ex, her best friend, her best friend's boyfriend and Joan's buffoonish husband, the two scientists are tangled together at the center of a web of illicit relationships, grudges and obsessions. All six are burdened by desire and ambition, and as they collide on the university campus, their attractions set in motion a domino effect of affairs and heartbreak.