Gulf

GULF is instantly gripping: a hurtling, sensory plunge into the lives of women in crisis whose worlds come to overlap in unexpected ways. Mo Ogrodnik is a gifted, arresting newcomer to the literary landscape. – Jennifer Egan, author of THE CANDY HOUSE
‘Ogrodnik achieves what only a debut novelist of fierce moral clarity and cinematic instinct could attempt: She plunges headlong into the fissures of contemporary womanhood stretched across the blazing, glittering mirage of the Arabian Peninsula … The novel’s power lies in the dissonant harmony of its five interlinked stories … In this, Gulf belongs on the shelf beside Rankine’s Citizen, Ondaatje’s Billy the Kid, and Sebald’s Austerlitz … This book belongs in classrooms, in human rights archives and on nightstands … This fiction as an invocation, as an exorcism and as a protest. This is the kind of book women pass to each other in silence, across borders and across time. And we are changed. And we are seen’ – Ruchira Gupta * Dawn Journal *

Mo Ogrodnik is a filmmaker, writer, and professor in the film department at NYU. She served as the associate dean of the arts for NYU in Abu Dhabi and as a mentor for the Sundance Labs in Jordan. Gulf is her first novel.

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