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Praise for Barbara Krasner's The Color of Time and Other Stories
Barbara Krasner's stunning new collection, The Color of Time and Other Stories, explores the horrors of the Holocaust and their reverberations over the years. Resisting any readily apparent roles assigned to them by the tsunami of history, her protagonists grapple with the tangled tango of revelation and trauma and seek equanimity, however fraught, through connection and remembering. Here, we meet a family wrestling with the fateful decision to go east to escape the fast-approaching catastrophe; a survivor who cannot share all with an oral history interviewer, and a Polish man, long ago a witness to acts of atrocity, now in mediated interaction with a visiting Jewish American. Krasner writes with texture and specificity; her stories, at once searing and polished, shine with a playwright's vivid dialogue, a scholar's knowledge of history, a writer's mastery of character and narrative, and a poet's eloquent lyricism. Not to be missed.
—Yermiyahu Ahron Taub, author of Night Breaks in the Garret: Poems and Peregrinations and Beloved Comrades: A Novel in Stories
Barbara Krasner's stories explore what it means to be from Eastern Europe during World War II and its aftermath, specifically from the perspective of the Jewish diaspora. They range from the heart-aching trials of a family forced to flee their home in Poland, pursued by the Nazis, to a Holocaust survivor who works the Borscht Belt circuit, claiming to be the fastest painter in the world. Whether writing in a realist style or in the tradition of European Fabulism, Krasner crafts stories that will remain in the reader's memory long after the final page is turned.
— Robert M. Eversz, author of Zero to the Bone
Barbara Krasner holds an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and a PhD in Holocaust & Genocide Studies from Gratz College, where she teaches in the graduate programs. Her short story, "The Newcomer," won the 2024 Folio Prize for fiction. A multiple Pushcart Prize nominee, her fiction has also been featured or is forthcoming in Consequence,Sequestrum, Michigan Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She lives in New Jersey. Visit her website at www.barbarakrasner.com.
