Mecca by Straight, Susan
Mecca by Straight, Susan
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One of The Washington Post's Ten Best Books of 2022. Finalist for the 2022 Kirkus Prize and the 2023 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. One of the New York Times' 10 Best California Books of 2022 and one of NPR's Best Books of 2022. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice.
"A wide and deep view of a dynamic, multiethnic Southern California . . . Susan Straight is an essential voice in American writing and in writing of the West." --The New York Times Book Review
Author: Susan Straight
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 03/15/2022
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.79w x 1.27d
ISBN: 9780374604516
Award: Kirkus Prize - Finalist
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 10/01/2021 pg. 3
Publishers Weekly 11/22/2021
Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2022
About the Author
Susan Straight is the author of several novels, including the national bestseller Highwire Moon, a finalist for the National Book Award, and A Million Nightingales, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, as well as the memoir In the Country of Women, named a best book of 2019 by NPR and Real Simple. She is the recipient of the Edgar Award for Best Short Story, the O. Henry Prize, the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and her stories and essays have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Guardian, Granta, Harper's Magazine, and elsewhere. She was born and continues to live in Riverside, California, with her family, where she serves as a distinguished professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside.