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Preparation for the Next Life

Atticus Lish

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Preparation for the Next Life won the PEN/Faulkner Prize and was a New York Times Notable Book. Brad Skinner, newly returned from three tours in Iraq, hitchhikes to New York hoping to exorcise his demons and reacclimate to American society. Zou Lei, an undocumented immigrant from Central Asia, catches a bus into the city, searching for a way to get by—or at least stay out of jail. Skinner and Zou Lei meet each other in the margins of the metropolis, each finding something they long for in the other, and their unlikely love story becomes the beating heart of this remarkable tale. Set in the underbelly of New York, Preparation for the Next Life exposes an America as seen from the fringes of society and, in devastating detail, lays waste to the myth of the American Dream through two of the most memorable characters in contemporary fiction.

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Publisher
Vintage
ISBN-13
9798217008186
Genre
Fiction
Topics
War trauma and PTSDImmigration and survival on society's marginsLove amid hardship

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