Halina Duraj’s work has appeared in The Sun, The Harvard Review, Ecotone, and the 2014 Pen/O. Henry Prize Stories. She has an MA in creative writing from the University of California, Davis, and a PhD in literature and creative writing from the University of Utah. She teaches at the University of San Diego, where she also directs the Lindsay J. Cropper Center for Creative Writing.
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—Melanie Rae Thon, author of The Voice of the River and In This Light
I love these stories. They are vivid, surprising, beautifully written, and give a wonderfully fresh take on the immigrant experience in America. I shall not forget this family or their story.
—Lynn Freed, author of The Servants’ Quarters and The Mirror
These beautifully crafted and compelling linked stories tell the story of an American family, one whose particularities are both utterly recognizable and brilliant for the surprises they contain. Halina Duraj’s prose is simultaneously sparkling clean and full of heart, not a wasted word, yet every emotional cul-de-sac rendered in its full complication. An utterly satisfying debut.
—Pam Houston, author of Contents May Have Shifted