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FICTION’S FUNDAMENTAL FORMULAS
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Wrote The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, This Is How You Lose Her and some others. Always thinking about fiction, diasporas, worldbuilding and why my mom spelled my name 3 different ways.
My historical fiction novel Death of the Soccer God (FSG, 2026) was named one of the best book of the years so far by the New Yorker magazine.
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