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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 the novels Savage Tongues and Call Me Zebra, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the John Gardner Award, was longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award, and named a best book of the year by over twenty publications. Her debut novel, Fra Keeler was chosen for the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35. She received a Whiting Award, and fellowships from Fulbright, MacDowell, and Art Omi. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review, Granta, Guernica, BOMB, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among other publications. She is the founder of Literatures of Annihilation, Exile & Resistance, a lecture series sponsored by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame that brings together Middle Eastern/Southwest Asian and North African writers and artists.
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