Preparation for the Next Life: Winner of the 2015 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

Atticus Lish

Preparation for the Next Life: Winner of the 2015 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Oneworld Publications
Country
United Kingdom
Published
4 February 2016
Pages
432
ISBN
9781780748337

Preparation for the Next Life: Winner of the 2015 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

Atticus Lish

In post-9/11 New York, Zou Lei is an illegal immigrant from northwest China. Forced to work fourteen-hour days and live in squalor, she nevertheless embraces the many freedoms her adopted homeland has to offer. Damaged by three tours in Iraq, veteran Brad Skinner comes to New York with the sole intention of partying as hard as he can in order to forget what he’s seen. Impulsive and angry, Skinner’s re-entry into civilian life seems doomed. But when he meets Zou Lei they discover that new beginnings may be possible for both of them, that is if they can survive homelessness, lockup and Skinner’s post-traumatic stress disorder.

Set in the underbelly of New York, Preparation for the Next Life exposes an America as seen from the fringes of society in devastating detail and destroys the myth of the American Dream through two of the most remarkable characters in contemporary fiction.

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