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Ghost Season is the debut novel of writer Fatin Abbas, a recipient of the Bernard Cohen Short Story Prize and the Miriam Weinberg Richter Award. Our First Impressions reviewers were taken in by its evocative setting, and 25 out of 26 readers rated it 4 or 5 stars.
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In her first novel, Fatin Abbas pulls together the lives of five very different people against the backdrop of the Second Sudanese Civil War (see Beyond the Book). As the book opens, the five main characters are living and working together at an NGO. Alex, a white American aid worker, seems to be the "odd man out" of the five, at times refusing to understand the customs of the country in which he has been assigned. His impatience is a hindrance and embarrassment to his translator William, who is trying to guide Alex through the bureaucracy of the Sudanese government. William is discovering that he ...
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