Information about the author Zinzi Clemmons was raised in Philadelphia by a South African mother and an American father. A graduate of Brown and Columbia, her writing has appeared in Zoetrope: All-Story, The Paris Review Daily, Transition, and elsewhere. She is a cofounder and former publisher of Apogee Journal and a contributing editor to Literary Hub. She has been in residence at the MacDowell Colony, Bread Loaf, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and Dar al-Ma'mûn in Marrakech, Morocco. Clemmons lives in Los Angeles with her husband, where she teaches at The Colburn Conservatory and Occidental College.

Blurb: A National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree, NBCC John Leonard First Book Prize Finalist, Aspen Words Literary Prize Finalist, California Book Award First Fiction Finalist, Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, Named a Best Book of the Year.