Adam Johnson is one of America’s greatest living writers.” - The Huffington Post NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Miami Herald ĪND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post And in the unforgettable title story, Johnson returns to his signature subject, North Korea, depicting two defectors from Pyongyang who are trying to adapt to their new lives in Seoul, while one cannot forget the woman he left behind. “George Orwell Was a Friend of Mine” follows a former warden of a Stasi prison in East Germany who vehemently denies his past, even as pieces of it are delivered in packages to his door. In “Hurricanes Anonymous,” a young man searches for the mother of his son in a Louisiana devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. In “Nirvana,” a programmer whose wife has a rare disease finds solace in a digital simulacrum of the president of the United States. Throughout these six stories, Pulitzer Prize winner Adam Johnson delves deep into love and loss, natural disasters, the influence of technology, and how the political shapes the personal, giving voice to the perspectives we don’t often hear. “MASTERFUL.”- The Washington Post “ENTRANCING.”- O: The Oprah Magazine “PERCEPTIVE AND BRAVE.”- The New York Times The National Book Award–winning story collection from the author of The Orphan Master’s Son offers something rare in fiction: a new way of looking at the world.
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