Fortune Smiles: Stories,Used

Fortune Smiles: Stories,Used

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The National Book Awardwinning story collection from the author of The Orphan Masters Son offers something rare in fiction: a new way of looking at the world.MASTERFUL.The Washington Post ENTRANCING.O: The Oprah Magazine PERCEPTIVE AND BRAVE.The New York TimesThroughout these six stories, Pulitzer Prize winner Adam Johnson delves deep into love and loss, natural disasters, the influence of technology, and how the political shapes the personal, giving voice to the perspectives we dont often hear.In Nirvana, a programmer whose wife has a rare disease finds solace in a digital simulacrum of the president of the United States. In Hurricanes Anonymous, a young man searches for the mother of his son in a Louisiana devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. George Orwell Was a Friend of Mine follows a former warden of a Stasi prison in East Germany who vehemently denies his past, even as pieces of it are delivered in packages to his door. And in the unforgettable title story, Johnson returns to his signature subject, North Korea, depicting two defectors from Pyongyang who are trying to adapt to their new lives in Seoul, while one cannot forget the woman he left behind.WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Miami Herald San Francisco Chronicle USA TodayAND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post NPR Marie Claire St. Louis PostDispatch BuzzFeed The Daily Beast Los Angeles Magazine The Independent BookPage Kirkus ReviewsRemarkable . . . Adam Johnson is one of Americas greatest living writers.The Huffington PostHaunting, harrowing . . . Johnsons writing is as rich in compassion as it is in invention, and that rare combination makes Fortune Smiles worth treasuring.USA TodayFortune Smiles [blends] exotic scenarios, morally compromised characters, highwire action, rigorously limber prose, dense thickets of emotion, and, most critically, our current technomoment.The Boston GlobeJohnsons boundarypushing stories make for exhilarating reading.San Francisco Chronicle

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