A debut collection explores the ties that bind parents and children, husbands and wives, lovers and friends to one another and to the places they call home.
In “Who
Will Greet You at Home, a woman desperate for a child weaves one out of hair,
with unsettling results. In “Wild,” a
disastrous night out shifts a teenager and her Nigerian cousin onto uneasy
common ground. In "The Future Looks
Good," three generations of women are haunted by the ghosts of war, while
in "Light," a father struggles to protect and empower the daughter he
loves. And in the title story, in a
world ravaged by flood and riven by class, experts have discovered how to
"fix the equation of a person" - with rippling, unforeseen
repercussions.
$50,000
(US) is bestowed annually to authors of fiction, nonfiction and young readers’
literature.
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