Meredith Steinbach's moving first novel tells the story of a strong yet vulnerable woman's attempts to reconcile her varying roles as daughter, wife, and doctor.

Zara

Literature & Fiction

Steinbach, Meredith

Contemporary

TriQuarterly

The Birth of the World as We Know It: Or Teiresias

In her fourth book of fiction, award-winning American novelist Meredith Steinbach reimagines the life of the Greek seer Teiresias. At the center of Steinbach's comic novel is an exploration of the meaning of time and the nature of identity. Having outlived everyone he ever knew, Teiresias looks back at the most significant episodes in his life - a visit to the Delphic oracle; mediating arguments between Zeus and Hera; his experiences as both man and woman, sighted and blind, prophet and slave - as he confronts the traveler Odysseus in the Underworld.

United States

<div>In her fourth book of fiction, award-winning American novelist Meredith Steinbach reimagines the life of the Greek seer Teiresias. Having outlived everyone he ever knew, the seer looks back at the most significant episodes in his life--a visit to the Delphic oracle, mediating arguments between Hera and Zeus, his experiences as both man and woman--as he confronts the traveler Odysseus in the Underworld. Narrated from shifting points of view with tremendous psychological acuity, Steinbach's novel intertwines time, event, and narrative. </div>

Zara Montgomery becomes dissatisfied with her life and regrets her decision to give up a promising medical career to marry a doctor

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

Here Lies the Water

Another Chicago Pr

Meredith Steinbach's latest novel, Village with Blue Doors, is the literary prequel to her 2013 Paris Book Festival Winner, The Charmed Life of Flowers: Field Notes from Provence. Village with Blue Doors is a dark comedy that has its characters addressing issues of equality, forgiveness, and sheer survival in a modern day fairy tale. The tale begins with the engagement and the impromptu party in Cafe Rousseau for Pearl Queneau, the little albino school teacher, and Ambrose le Beau, the one-eyed, gigantic, conductor of the children's symphony. By noon on the following day, however, The Flash Flood Unforeseeable has already shaken up nearly everything for the new couple, and for Pere Martin and the other eight-hundred citizens of St. X. Cover and book were designed by Mary Tiegreen. Author photo by Zach S. Hartman.

Village with Blue Doors

Literary

House of Remington

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Zara

The Birth of the World as We Know It: Or Teiresias

The Birth of the World as We Know It: Or Teiresias

Zara

Here Lies the Water

Here Lies the Water

Village with Blue Doors