THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE
A Memoir
"Dazzling. A darkly comedic style that recalls David Sedaris."
—San Francisco Chronicle
"One of the funniest writers I've ever read, period."
—Alexandra Fuller, author of Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
"If there's a black-comic angle, Bachrach will find it."
—The Austin Chronicle
"One of the Top 24 Memoirs About Mothers."
--Goodreads, 2019
NANCY BACHRACH worked in advertising in New York and Paris, "spinning hot air like cotton candy." Before that, she was a teaching assistant in the philosophy department at Brandeis University, where she was "one chapter ahead of her class."
THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE, her first book, was published by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House. Her new narration for Prokofiev's "PETER AND THE WOLF" was commissioned by New York Piano Society and premièred at Carnegie Hall in 2024. Her new narration for Saint-Saëns' "CARNIVAL OF THE ANIMALS" premièred at Carnegie Hall in 2022.