Jennifer duBois is the author of A Partial History of Lost Causes, which won a California Book Award for Fiction, a Northern California Book Award for First Fiction, and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Prize for Debut Fiction. The National Book Foundation named her one of its 5 Under 35 authors. Her second novel, Cartwheel, was the winner of the Housatonic Book Award for fiction and was a finalist for a New York Public Library Young Lions Award.Her new novel is The Spectators.
Recently I asked duBois about what she was reading. Her reply:
I recently read Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah--a hallucinatory and hilarious collection about America's racial and economic absurdities. The fearlessness ofVisit the official Jennifer duBois website.this book's comic instincts put me in mind of Paul Beatty's The Sellout; its moments of pathos reminded me of the stories of George Saunders.
I'm in the middle of The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton, an epic mystery set in mid-nineteenth-century New Zealand, written in a Victorian prose style that's a truly astonishing act of mimicry. I'm not entirely sure how the elaborate puzzle pieces of this book fit together, but I've been really enjoying my bewilderment.
The Page 69 Test: A Partial History of Lost Causes.
My Book, The Movie: A Partial History of Lost Causes.
The Page 69 Test: Cartwheel.
--Marshal Zeringue
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