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by V. V. Ganeshananthan (Author)
New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - A courageous young Sri Lankan woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor in this "heartbreaking exploration of a family fractured by civil war" (Brit Bennett, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Half).
"This book, a careful, vivid exploration of what's lost within a community when life and thought collapse toward binary conflict, rang softly for me as a novel for our own country in this odd time."--Nathan Heller, The New Yorker
AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - FINALIST FOR THE MINNESOTA BOOK AWARD - LONGLISTED FOR THE ASIAN PRIZE FOR FICTION
Author Biography
V. V. Ganeshananthan (she/her) is the author of the novels Brotherless Night (a New York Times Editors' Choice) and Love Marriage, which was longlisted for the Women's Prize and named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post. Her work has appeared in Granta, The New York Times, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading, among others. A former vice president of the South Asian Journalists Association, she has also served on the board of the Asian American Writers' Workshop, and is presently a member of the boards of the American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies and the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of Minnesota and co-hosts the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast on Literary Hub, which is about the intersection of literature and the news.
