Can we ever know the past? Sure, we have research—records, documents, and archaeological sites—but long-ago words and stones leave huge gaps. Sensory memory rushes to fill those gaps, dangling its low-hanging fruit....
Playground Zero
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When I wrote Playground Zero, a coming-of-age novel set in Berkeley during the counterculture movement of the 1960s, I wanted to convey something of the city’s splendor, along with the anarchy of those years....
Story Circle Network presents a coming-of-age webinar with Sarah Relyea, Shelley Blanton-Stroud, and Elise Schiller....
Reading and discussion of Playground Zero. Recorded on February 16, 2021....
For baby boomers in 2020, the pandemic was novel and unimaginable, but racism was an old and ugly scar––a long-running tragedy we should have eliminated long ago....
You can view the 2020 Playground Zero virtual tour online. It includes reviews, podcasts, essays by author Sarah Relyea, and more. ...