Bodies In Motion

About the Book

"Persuasive portrait of a talented, independent young photographer who becomes a wife and a mother at the cost of her independence and places her talent in jeopardy."

—The New York Times Book Review

Ms. Kotker has a sure instinct for the drama of daily frictions and resentments of young mothers whose lives center on the playground."

—Saturday Review

"Crisp and pithy."

—The Boston Globe

"The writing is original and bitterly funny."

—Publishers Weekly

"Amusing study of a young Manhattan family."

—The New Yorker

About the Author

Zane Kotker has published four novels: Bodies in Motion, A Certain Man, White Rising and Try To Remember. She has won a fiction grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and enjoyed residences at the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. She and her late husband Norman Kotker left Manhattan for western Massachusetts in 1978 with their two children, now grown.