Raven leilani books5/13/2023 ![]() I’d never read a novel about a Muslim American family before, and as a teenager, at some level I must have internalized the belief that our stories didn’t belong in literature. On writing without a model: “I remember flinching when I first wrote the name ‘Hadia’. ![]() What critics said: “ A Place for Us is a stunning novel about love, compassion, cruelty and forgiveness-the very things that make families what they are … Mirza, 27, writes with more grace and self-confidence than many authors who have been publishing before she was born, and it’s going to be fascinating to see what she does next.” – Michael Schaub, NPR I think it’s only natural, and I wanted to make room for this, that she fails.” But I think all of what’s guiding her is that feeling of wanting to be made real, to be witnessed. And because there’s chaos there’s immense fallout. ![]() On allowing characters to fail: “Edie is fumbling through the dark, trying to find human connection randomly. What critics said: “Raven Leilani’s first novel reads like summer: sentences like ice that crackle or melt into a languorous drip plot suddenly, wildly flying forward like a bike down a hill … Leilani has a ruthless knack for the somatic, rendering flesh on paper as alluring and unidealized as it is right next to you.” – Jazmine Hughes, The New York Times Book Review ![]()
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