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Tania James

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Chicago IL, The United States
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Fiction, Historical Fiction, Contemporary

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Tania James is the author of three works of fiction, most recently the novel The Tusk That Did the Damage (Knopf). Tusk was named a Best Book of 2015 by The San Francisco Chronicle, The Guardian, and NPR, and shortlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize. Her short stories have appeared in One Story, The New Yorker, Granta, Freeman's Anthology, Oxford American, and other venues. James is an associate professor at George Mason University, and lives in Washington DC. Her forthcoming novel, Loot, will be published by Knopf in June 2023.
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Average rating: 3.75 · 11,520 ratings · 1,780 reviews · 11 distinct works • Similar authors
Loot
3.79 avg rating — 8,060 ratings — published 2023 — 17 editions
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“These stories are important to me, not because they happen to be about South Asians, but because they’re circling around a certain strain of loneliness that goes deeper than cultural dissonance, that has to do with the yearning to connect with someone else, or with some unreachable vision of home.”
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tags: identity
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“Sometimes sentiments were better left in song.”
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tags: love
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“As she continues to answer questions about her employment, all these words mean little more to her now than I AM SOPHISTICATED, I AM WORTHY, I AM SOPHISTICATED, I AM WORTHY. She attempts the posture of a politician's wife, shoulders held back, dignifIed yet modest.”
― Tania James, Atlas of Unknowns
tags: dignity, immigration
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