Description: From a National Book Award nominee comes "a smart, subtle, moving story about the complicated business of knowing the people you love" "(Book Forum"). Denise remains her brother Nik's most passionate audience, but when her daughter decides to make a film about Nik, everyone's vulnerabilities escalate.
Brief description: Dana Spiotta is the author of six novels. Her awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Rome Prize, the St. Francis College Literary Prize, and the John Updike Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her novels have been shortlisted for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She teaches in the Syracuse University creative writing program.
Review Quotes: "Dana Spiotta's Stone Arabia is a dreamlike meditation on fame and success, technology and the imagination. The novel beautifully manifests Ms. Spiotta's gift for transforming her keen cultural intelligence into haunting, evocative prose."-Jennifer Egan, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Visit from the Goon Squad