Sari Wilson

Bunhead

This novel-in-progress takes place largely within the strange, sometimes sinister world of ballet. It centers on a young girl growing up in 1970s and '80s bohemian Brooklyn and the girl's peripatetic journey through the classical dance world.

In some ways, this is a deeply personal book. I too trained as a ballet dancer during the 1970s and 1980s. I studied at Harkness Ballet and was on scholarship at Eliot Feld's New Ballet School. I have interviewed other dancers who trained at competitive ballet programs and have read numerous autobiographies of dancers who traveled the same road. I remain fascinated by the peril-fraught journey of these young girls.

[ You can listen to an interview with me and an excerpt from the novel on Breakthru Radio's Booktalk. ]

Here is the opening of Bunhead.

Bunhead is © and ™ Sari Wilson