Local fiction: Wild “Beta Vulgaris” features a character losing her grip on reality while toiling at a numbing job.

Author Margie Sarsfield based her novel "Beta Vulgaris" on experiences she had a little more than a decade ago when she travelled to Minnesota to work on the sugar beet harvest. She said she knew ...

Sarsfield’s ambitious and delightfully bizarre debut portrays the yearning and misfortunes of a white 20-something migrant worker in the Midwest. In September 2014, Elise travels from Brooklyn with ...