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A man purchases a house, the house of Fra Keeler, moves in, and begins investigating the circumstances of the latter's death. Yet the investigation quickly turns inward, and the reality it seeks to unravel seems only to grow more strange, as the narrator pursues not leads but lines of thought, most often to hideous conclusions. More about this book >
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Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi reads at the 2015 5 Under 35 Celebration
Q&A with the 2015 NBF 5 Under 35 Honorees
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi is the author of Fra Keeler, Savage Tongues, and Call Me Zebra, winner of the 2019 PEN/Faulkner Award. She has received a Whiting Award, is a past National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, and has held fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Fulbright Program, the Aspen Institute, and MacDowell. Her work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The Paris Review, and The Yale Review, among other publications. She is the Dorothy G. Griffin College Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame.
(Photo credit: Beowulf Sheehan)
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