Barbara Bourland
Barbara Bourland is a novelist living in Baltimore. Her third novel, The Force of Such Beauty, follows a retired Olympic athlete who marries a prince, and will be published by Dutton in 2022.
Bourland's novels use imaginative escapism to process an emotional condition (in chronological order: I'll Eat When I'm Dead, the compulsion to control our appearance; Fake Like Me, the worry that we aren’t good enough; The Force of Such Beauty, the desire to be special) endemic to contemporary women’s lives. Cast in the mold of universal literary forms—the detective story, the thriller, the fairytale—they weave in and out of their genres, until the plot turns inside out and the narrative, upon reflection, appears to be something else entirely.
She's at work on her fourth novel, Fields and Waves, forthcoming from Dutton in 2024.
Bourland's novels use imaginative escapism to process an emotional condition (in chronological order: I'll Eat When I'm Dead, the compulsion to control our appearance; Fake Like Me, the worry that we aren’t good enough; The Force of Such Beauty, the desire to be special) endemic to contemporary women’s lives. Cast in the mold of universal literary forms—the detective story, the thriller, the fairytale—they weave in and out of their genres, until the plot turns inside out and the narrative, upon reflection, appears to be something else entirely.
She's at work on her fourth novel, Fields and Waves, forthcoming from Dutton in 2024.
