When Sarah Bernstein started writing her second novel, 'Study for Obedience,' the words of another artist were on her mind.
When Sarah Bernstein started writing her second novel, "Study for Obedience," the words of another artist were on her mind.
The Montreal-born author said that quote captured an "interesting tension" and provided inspiration for the novel that has now been longlisted for this year's prestigious Booker Prize. The literary award recognizes the best long fiction work published in the U.K. and Ireland and written in English. In “Study for Obedience,” an unreliable narrator weaves the story of a young woman who moves to a remote country of her ancestors to take care of her brother after his wife leaves him. The woman’s arrival is followed by “a series of inexplicable events” and growing hostility from the local community, even as she tries to do good.
Bernstein said she still can’t fully consider what the Booker Prize nod might mean for her literary future. She imagines the recognition that comes with being in the running for the 50,000-pound prize will make it easier for her to publish a third novel, which she was planning to do anyway. Bernstein studied creative writing and English at Concordia University in Montreal and then moved to New Brunswick to get a master’s degree. She moved to Edinburgh in 2013 to work on her PhD, and then "just kind of stayed on in Scotland.”
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