Jonas Anderson wants a fresh start.He’s made plenty of bad decisions in his life, but he’s sure a move to Sweden, the country of his mother’s birth, will be just the thing to kick-start a new and improved—and newly sober—Jonas. More about this book >

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  Selected by Garth Greenwell >

  Garth Greenwell

  

  Garth Greenwell is the author of What Belongs to You, which won the British Book Award for Debut of the Year, was Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction, and was a finalist for six other awards, including the PEN/Faulkner Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, it was named a Best Book of 2016 by over fifty publications in nine countries, and is being translated into a dozen languages. A new book of fiction, Cleanness, is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux in early 2020. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, A Public Space, and VICE, and he has written criticism for The New Yorker, the London Review of Books, and the New York Times Book Review, among others. He lives in Iowa City.