NAM LE
Wednesday, June 4 at 7:30 p.m.

'Tis the season for short story collections. From Knopf, the publisher of recent, bestselling collections by such masters as Jhumpa Lahiri and Tobias Wolff, comes this strong-voiced debut book, The Boat, by Vietnam-born, Australia-raised writer Nam Le. "From a Colombian slum to the streets of Tehran, seven characters in seven stories struggle with very particular Swords of Damocles in Pushcart Prize winner Le's accomplished debut. ... [A] story's ironies—'You could totally exploit the Vietnamese thing,' says a fellow to Nam—are masterfully controlled by Le, and reverberate through the rest of this peripatetic collection. Taken together, the stories cover a vast geographic territory and are filled with exquisitely painful and raw moments of revelation, captured in an economical style as deft as it is sure." - Publishers Weekly.

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