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MARTA BALCEWICZspent her early childhood in Pomerania and Madrid, and now lives in Toronto. Her work has appeared inCatapult,Tin Houseonline,Vol. 1. Brooklyn,Washington Square Review,The Rumpus, andPassages North, amongst other publications. Her fiction was anthologized inTiny Crimes(Catapult, 2018). She received a fellowship from Tin House Workshops in 2022.Big Shadowis her first novel.
"""Big Shadow explores teenage apathy in detail, but avoids this all too common problem by infusing the book with charming doses of quaintness and naïveté."" --Toronto Star. ""Balcewicz has a knack for humor both observational and deadpan, symbolism both ironic and earnest, and peculiar turns of phrase . . . At times, Balcewicz's prose channels Sheila Heti's wry brooding."" --Chicago Review of Books. Big Shadow by Marta Balcewicz is included in Vol. 1 Brooklyn's Books of the Month: May 2023 edition. ""Big Shadow is an addictive read beaming with intrigue . . . In magnifying the myopic struggle of art versus commerce and ambition versus reality, Big Shadow most viscerally captures the essence of the formative years of the human experience."" --Aquarium Drunkard."
