Audrey Schulman is the author of four previous novels: Three Weeks in December (Europa, 2012), Swimming With Jonah, The Cage, and A House Named Brazil. Her work has been translated into eleven languages. Born in Montreal, she now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she runs HEET, a non-profit.
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In Three Weeks in December, "Schulman delivers the known world in startling new sounds, colors, tastes and smells."—The New York Times Book Review
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“A tender tale...and a salty reminder of postwar American misogyny.”
— 4Columns, Jan 12 2024![]()
“The Dolphin House is a deeply engrossing read.”
— The Independent, Aug 1 2022![]()
“16 hotly-anticipated new books coming out this week.”— Lit Hub, Apr 5 2022![]()
“Despite its sordid-seeming subject matter, The Dolphin House is a true heartbreaker.”
— Wired.com, Apr 4 2022![]()
“Engrossing... As with Ms. Schulman’s outstanding 2018 novel Theory of Bastards, about a bonobo researcher in a dystopian near future, the frisson of The Dolphin House comes when it turns the methods of rigorous observation on its humans.”— Wall Street Journal, Apr 2 2022![]()
“Readers will enjoy this novel of the human need for connection, conversation, and community.”— Booklist, Mar 3 2022![]()
★ “Schulman builds a lovely picture of the growth of mutual trust and enjoyment among the dolphins and Cora... Both woman and dolphins come to vivid life in this fascinating and beautifully realized novel.”— Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review), Mar 2 2022![]()
“Schulman’s exploration of debilitating pain, mating preferences, and the drawbacks of technology delivers an intimate, generous and thought-provoking novel.”— Locus Magazine, Oct 31 2018![]()
“...you will be unable to look away from the page, hardly be able to draw a breath.”— The Washington Post, May 9 2018![]()
“Singular, inventive, and provocative, Theory of Bastards warrants attention.”— Foreward Reviews, Apr 24 2018![]()
“[A] wonderful, intricate novel [...and] a propulsive story rooted in a future that feels possible. The incorporation of research into the narrative is seamless, and the result is an astute, impeccable page-turner readers will savor.”— Publishers Weekly, Feb 19 2018![]()
“[A] deeply unusual, psychologically astute novel about technology and survival, sex and love. [...] Beguiling, irreverent, and full of heart.”— Kirkus Reviews, Feb 6 2018![]()
“Singular, inventive, and provocative, THEORY OF BASTARDS warrants attention.”— Foreword Reviews, Jan 24 2018![]()
As a child, Audrey Schulman saw herself living the writer’s life – blissfully sitting in cafes, observing interesting conversations, not having to deal with bosses – so naturally, she figured it would be a good idea to get started as early as possible. Her first novel...— Nov 19 2012![]()
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Stories of American outsiders in Africa 100 years apart — a gay engineer and an ethnobotanist with Asperger’s syndrome — alternate in this fresh and complex novel.— Feb 17 2012![]()
Max Tombay, one of the two central characters in Audrey Schulman’s new novel, is many things: an ethnobotanist; a mixed-race woman; a native of Bangor, Me. Above all else, though, Max is identified by her sense-perception of the world. She’s an “Aspie.” That is, she...— Feb 12 2012![]()
Set in Africa, Audrey Schulman’s gripping new novel, “Three Weeks in December,’’ tells the alternating stories of two people, a century apart, locked in a struggle not just with the wildness that surrounds them, but that lies within them. It is the last month of...— Feb 8 2012![]()
Book Review: Three Weeks in December Three Weeks in December by Audrey Schulman (Europa, $16 paperback, 9781609450649, January 31, 2012) In Audrey Schulman's (The Cage) ingeniously plotted novel, we read two stories, happening 100 apart, that come together in a most...— Jan 23 2012![]()
Deftly weaving the forays of two individuals, separated by a century, into the unknown heart of Africa, Schulman’s fourth novel, her first in 11 years, tracks an engineer named Jeremy, who in 1889 accepts a contract to supervise the construction of a bridge in British-controlled...— Dec 19 2011
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