From Sigrid Nunez , the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend, comes A Feather on the Breath of God , a mesmerizing story about the tangled nature of relationships between parents and children, between language and love.
A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, she teaches fiction writing at Yale and lives in Brooklyn..
Her first book for children, Camp Tiger , was also published in 2019.
Her fifth novel, Trust Exercise , won the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction.
Her fourth novel, My Education , received a 2014 Lammy Award.
Sebald Award.
In 2010 she was named the inaugural recipient of the PEN/W.
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Her third novel, A Person of Interest , was a finalist for the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award.
Her second novel, American Woman , was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize.
Susan Choi \'s first novel, The Foreign Student , won the Asian-American Literary Award for fiction.
Her work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages.
She is also the author of Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag .
About author(s): Sigrid Nunez is the New York Times bestselling author of The Friend , winner of the 2018 National Book Award, and of several other novels, including What Are You Going Through and The Last of Her Kind .
A yearning homesick mother, a silent and withdrawn father, the ballet--these are the elements that shape the young woman\'s imagination and her sexuality.
Growing up in a housing project in the 1950s and 1960s, she escapes into dreams inspired both by her parents\' stories and by her own reading and, for a time, into the otherworldly life of ballet.
A young woman looks back to the world of her immigrant parents: a Chinese Panamanian father and a German mother.
From Sigrid Nunez , the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend, comes A Feather on the Breath of God , a mesmerizing story about the tangled nature of relationships between parents and children, between language and love
