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Author has been widely published, including in the LA Times, Salon, Reuters, the Paris Review, the Guardian, Pacific Standard, the Huffington Post, and Foreign Policy
A Commonwealth Prize Winner, the author has been lauded by major literary figures-called "the rare writer who knows the secret to telling the true story" by Marlon James and "reminiscent of Proulx and Doctorow" by Dagoberto Gilb
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Book's focus on white supremacy, humanitarianism, and white privilege provides opportunities for wider coverage, crossover into larger markets, and inclusion in national conversations surrounding race and privilege
About the author
Deni Ellis Béchard is the author of five other books: Vandal Love, winner of the 2007 Commonwealth Writers Prize; Cures for Hunger, a memoir; Of Bonobos and Men, winner of the 2015 Nautilus Book Award for investigative journalism; Into the Sun, winner of the 2017 Midwest Book Award for Literary Fiction; and Kuei, My Friend: A Conversation on Racism and Reconciliation, an epistolary book coauthored with First Nations poet Natasha Kanapé-Fontaine. His articles, fiction, and photos have been published in dozens of newspapers and magazines, including the LA Times, Salon, Reuters, the Paris Review, the Guardian, Patagonia, La Repubblica, the Walrus, Pacific Standard, Le Devoir, Vanity Fair Italia, the Herald Scotland, the Huffington Post, the Harvard Review, the National Post, and Foreign Policy. He has reported from India, Cuba, Rwanda, Colombia, Iraq, the Congo, and Afghanistan.
Summary
From the celebrated author of the “ferociously intelligent and intensely gripping” (Phil Klay) Into the Sun comes a subversive, daring, and at times satirical novel exploring privilege, humanitarianism, white supremacy, and the absurdity of American exceptionalism.
