Playground Zero

2021 International Book Awards Finalist in Fiction: Literary2021 Readers’ Favorite Book Awards Finalist in Fiction: Social Issues“This intense retrospective on people yanked out of the strait-lacedFifties and tossed into a culture of anything goes will appeal toreaders wanting to learn more about Berkeley’s days of rage.” —Historical Novels Review“Like the writing of Jodi Picoult, Sarah Relyea has the ability to builda particular drama into a compelling plot, unveiled through multiplepoints of view… . Through music, literature, and actual events, theauthor creates a clear picture of the 1960s, especially the tumultuousevents and the free-love flower power that swept the west coast inparticular. This is a powerful, historical drama. Well constructed.”—Readers’ Favorite, five-star review“An eerily compelling déjà vu of the free, wild, and jeopardy-ridden kid scene in late-1960s Berkeley. Uncanny and powerful.” —Charles Degelman, Editor, Harvard Square Editions“Like a trip through the Looking Glass, Sarah Relyea’s engrossing debutnovel takes you by the hand back to the sixties, where social rules werebeing challenged and political upheaval was the norm.” —Patricia Hurtado, Brooklyn writer and journalist with Bloomberg News“A fascinating exploration of a strange and exciting time in US history .. . I was totally immersed in the story as Alice grows and develops in aworld in which freedom has many different outcomes.”—NetGalley

Sarah Relyea is the award-winning author of Playground Zero, a coming-of-age novel about the 1960s, and Outsider Citizens: The Remaking of Identity in Wright, Beauvoir, and Baldwin, a work of literary criticism. Sarah grew up in Berkeley during the counterculture movement of the 1960s. She has taught at universities in New York and Taiwan. Sarah lives in Brooklyn, New York, and continues to spend time in Northern California.

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