THE LOST BOOK OF ADANA MOREAU

*Winner of theChicago Review of BooksAward for Fiction*. A Heartland Booksellers Award Nominee. An NPR Best Book of the Year. ABookPageBest Book of the Year. ALibrary JournalBest Winter/Spring Debut of 2020. A Most Anticipated Book of 2020 from theBoston GlobeandThe Millions. A Best Book of February 2020 atSalon The Millions LitHubandVol 1. Brooklyn. A stunnerequal parts epic and intimate thrilling and elegiac.Laura Van den Berg author ofThe Third HotelSmart and heart-piercinga story of displacement erasure identity mythology and the ability of literature to simultaneously express and transcend our lives. NPR.org. In 1929 in New Orleans a Dominican immigrant named Adana Moreau writes a science fiction novel. The novel earns rave reviews and Adana begins a sequel. Then she falls gravely ill. Just before she dies she destroys the only copy of the manuscript.. Decades later in Chicago Saul Drower is cleaning out his dead grandfathers home when he discovers a mysterious manuscript written by none other than Adana Moreau. With the help of his friend Javier Saul tracks down an address for Adanas son in New Orleans but as Hurricane Katrina strikes they must head to the storm-ravaged city for answers.What results is a brilliantly layered masterpiecean ode to home storytelling and the possibility of parallel worlds.. Hypnotizing. New York Times Book Review. Deftly conjuredthematically vital. Washington Post