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—Winner: 2020 Balcones Fiction Prize —Winner: 2020 Foreward Reviews Editor’s Choice Prize —Winner: 2020 WLT Fiction Discovery Prize —Winner: 2020 Big Other Book Award (Fiction) —Winner: 2020 PubWest Book Design Award (Bronze) —Finalist: Reading the West 31st Annual Awards (Debut Fiction) —Finalist: 2020 Foreward Reviews Book Awards (Literary)
“Structured as an illuminated alphabet, Karimi’s startling debut pieces together a pastiche of memory, folklore, and multilayered sense impressions with photographs from Karimi’s childhood and illustrations of her own making. The result is a sharply etched treatise on the objects of memory—encouraging a perhaps unavoidable comparison to Proust—which sets itself the monumental task of exploring the atrocity of war both as the bombs strike and as they reverberate down through the generations. A novel powerful