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Anthony Veasna So (1992-2020) was a graduate of Stanford University and earned his MFA in fiction at Syracuse University. His writing has appeared in or is forthcoming in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, n+1, Granta, and ... (more)
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Things We Lost to the Water
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Afterparties
by Anthony Veasna So
Yaa Gyasi was born in Ghana and raised in Huntsville, Alabama. She holds a BA in English from Stanford University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she held a Dean's Graduate Research Fellowship. She lives in ... (more)
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Things We Lost to the Water
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Transcendent Kingdom
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This Other Eden
by Paul Harding
A novel inspired by the true story of Malaga Island from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Tinkers.
River Sing Me Home
by Eleanor Shearer
A remarkable debut about a mother's gripping journey across the Caribbean to find her stolen children in the aftermath of slavery.
French Braid
by Anne Tyler
From the beloved Pulitzer Prize–winning author, a joyful journey deep into one Baltimore family's foibles.
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