Becoming Delilah

Sara Marchant received her MFA in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts from the University of California, Riverside. She is the author of a memoir, Proof of Loss (2019), and a novella The Driveway Has Two Sides (2018), on which Becoming Delilah is based. Her work has been published in journals including The Coachella Review and Desert Magazine, and in anthologies including All the Women in my Family Sing and the Running Wild Novella Anthology. She is a founding editor of the feminist literary collective and magazine Writers Resist. She teaches at Mt. San Jacinto College in Southern California.

'A rich and moving story of identity' -Elizabeth Crane, author of This Story Will Change'Serene and sensuous... Marchant's prose is as measured and lush as a summer garden' -Liska Jacobs, author of The Pink Hotel'A sly and delicate novel of secret lives on a small island' -Michael Scott Moore, author of bestselling The Desert and the Sea'Becoming Delilah excavates without sentimentality the things women must do to survive in a world where "men make the rules"' -Gina Frangello, author of Blow Your House Down and A Life in Men'Marchant reveals her keen insight into human behavior and life in a world of stacked decks' -Deanne Stillman, author of Twentynine Palms'This book peels back layer after layer of Delilah's life in a way that is profoundly moving, unexpected and satisfying' -Mary Waters'This is a book to be read slowly, savoring each subtle twist and turn of these small lives lived largely' -Tod Goldberg