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Michael Zapata is a founding editor of MAKE Literary Magazine and the author of the novel The Lost Book of Adana Moreau, winner of the 2020 Chicago Review of Books Award for Fiction, finalist for the 2020 Heartland Booksellers Award in Fiction, and a Best Book of the Year for NPR, the A.V. Club, Los Angeles Public Library, and BookPage, among others. He is a recipient of a Meier Foundation Artist Achievement Award. He is on the faculty of StoryStudio Chicago and the MFA faculty of Northwestern University. As a public-school educator, he taught literature and writing in high schools servicing drop out students. He currently lives in Chicago with his family.

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The Lost Book of Adana Moreau

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“Every telling of an event is a portrait of the teller and not the event itself.”
― Michael Zapata, The Lost Book of Adana Moreau

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“Memory is a gravitational force. It is constantly attracting us to the past, even if we shouldn’t stay there for too long. Those of us who have a memory are able to live in that fragile space between the past and the future. Those of us who have none are already dead.”
― Michael Zapata, The Lost Book of Adana Moreau

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“History, like fiction, was illusory, if not an outright lie, but we still existed because of it and it existed because of us.”
― Michael Zapata, The Lost Book of Adana Moreau

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