Bodies in Motion
By Zane Kotker
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Young, single Sonya works as a science photographer for children’s books and lives in a fanciful world of her own observation. She marries the appealing but sometimes oblivious Victor.
Soon Peter is born.
At first mother and baby wheel contentedly about the “glens and shadowy places” of nearby Riverside Park. As her son learns to walk, Sonya takes him into a playground to be socialized. Here natural forces and social customs reveal themselves to Sonya, though she no longer packs a camera.
Olivia is born.
At the sandbox Sonya notices how female and male programming appear and are fostered. Back in her apartment she finds herself sinking into the traditional female role. Will she retain her own curious eye? Will she ever get her camera out of the closet?
The culture has changed since 1972 when Bodies in Motion was first published, but the work of raising children remains the same.
Zane Kotker
Zane Kotker wrote Bodies in Motion from 8:00 A.M. to noon on Tuesdays and Fridays—when her baby sitter came. Upon publication of this early feminist novel in 1972, The New York Times Book Review hailed it as “a persuasive portrait of a talented, independent young photographer who becomes a wife and mother at the cost of her independence…unbitchy, honest, and it makes its point.” The National Endowment for the Arts awarded its author a fiction grant.Her second novel, A Certain Man, tells of Charles (“Arley”) Minor, who preached resurrection in the Congregational churches of rural New England and in the inner cities of Boston and Hartford before, during, and after World War II. “Rigor of thought and aptness of expression found only infrequently in the modern novel,” said The Christian Science Monitor.In White Rising, Kotker evoked King Philip’s War (1675–76) between New England’s colonists and its indigenous Americans. Of this historical novel The New Yorker, said “[Zane Kotker’s] ambitious effort to describe the war from the inside (or, rather, from both insides) is entirely successful.”In Try to Remember, a family is devastated by an accusation of sexual abuse during the four-year wave (1988–1992) of false accusations. “Skillfully shifting among various viewpoints, Kotker renders sympathetic the character and motives of people who find themselves irreconcilably opposed,” said The New York Times Book Review.Zane Kotker has published a dozen short stories and won a Must Read 2012 designation from the Massachusetts Center for the Book for her poetry chapbook, Old Ladies in the Locker Room and Pool. She lives in Western Massachusetts, half-way between her childhood home in Vermont and New York’s Upper West Side where she raised her own children.www.zanekotker.com
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