About the Author

……and was longlisted for the 2014 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize
Center for Fiction First Novel Prize：
an annual award presented by The Center for Fiction (originally called the New York Mercantile Library), a non-profit organization in New York City, for the best debut novel (English-language works only). From 2006 to 2011, it was called the John Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize in honor of John Turner Sergent. And then, it was called the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, named after Center for Fiction board member Nancy Dunnan and her journalist father Ray W. Flaherty.