“Abani . . . explores place and humor, exile and freedom with poems of experience and imagination . . . [he] enters the wound with a boldness that avoids nothing. Highly recommended.” —Library Journal “Stunning poems.” —New Humanist A self-described “zealot of optimism,” poet and novelist Chris Abani bravely travels into the charged intersections of atrocity and love, politics and religion, loss and renewal. In...
–Abani's last novel, «GraceLand,» was a selection of the TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB, winner of the PEN Hemingway Award, a Silver Medal in the California Book Awards, and was a finalist for several other prizes including the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
· Abani is a very popular speaker and presenter active on the reading circuit · Abani’s most recent novel, GraceLand (Picador), won several awards, was reviewed in scores of metro dailies, and was named a “Best Book of the Year” in San Francisco Chronicle and listed as a “Notable Book” in New York Times · Abani was a Barnes and Noble Discover Series Selection · Central section of Hands Washing Water is very imaginative Civil War correspondence...
