For a decade, their lives have been governed by laws written to preserve 'American culture' in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. Bird knows not to ask too many questions, stand out too much, stray too far. Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet and circumspect existence with his loving but broken father, a talented linguist now relegated to shelving books in a library. He is the co-director of The New Voices Festival, a celebration of work in poetry, prose, and playwriting by up-and-coming young writers.From the #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, a deeply heartwrenching novel about the unbreakable love between a mother and child in a society consumed by fear.

His book, Kazuo Ishiguro as World Literature, is under contract with Bloomsbury Publishing. He writes criticism on contemporary global literatures. Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and TomorrowĬhris Holmes is Chair of Literatures in English and Associate Professor at Ithaca College.She is a recipient of the Pushcart Prize, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, among other honors. Little Fires Everywhere has been adapted as a limited series on Hulu, starring Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington. It was named a best book of the year by over 25 publications, the winner of the Ohioana Award and the Goodreads Readers Choice Award 2017 in Fiction, and has spent over a year on the New York Times bestseller list. Her second novel, Little Fires Everywhere (2017) was a #1 New York Times bestseller, a #1 Indie Next bestseller, and Amazon's Best Fiction Book of 2017. Her first novel, Everything I Never Told You (2014), was a New York Times bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book of 2014, Amazon’s #1 Best Book of 2014, and named a best book of the year by over a dozen publications. Celeste Ng is the author of three novels, Everything I Never Told You, Little Fires Everywhere, and Our Missing Hearts.

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