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Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Rez is a riveting debut collection about what it means to be Penobscot in the twenty-first century and what it means to live, to survive, and to persevere after tragedy. More about this book >
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Morgan Talty is a citizen of the Penobscot Indian Nation. His debut short story collection, Night of the Living Rez, won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, the American Academy of Arts & Letters Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction, the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, the New England Book Award, and was also a Finalist for Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and The Story Prize. Night of the Living Rez was named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times, NPR, Esquire, Oprah Daily, and more. His writing has appeared in Granta, The Georgia Review, Shenandoah, TriQuarterly, Narrative Magazine, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. His novel, Fire, Exit is forthcoming from Tin House. He lives in Levant, Maine.
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