Nina Revoyr

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Nina Revoyr was born in Japan to a Japanese mother and a white American father, and grew up in Tokyo, Wisconsin, and Los Angeles. She is the author of four novels. Her first book, The Necessary Hunger , was described by Time magazine as "the kind of irresistible read you start on the subway at 6 p.m. on the way home from work and keep plowing through until you've turned the last page at 3 a.m. in bed."

Her second novel, Southland, was a Los Angeles Times bestseller and "Best Book of 2003," a Book Sense 76 pick, an Edgar Award finalist, and the winner of the Ferro Grumley Award and the Lambda Literary Award. Publishers Weekly called it "Compelling... never lacking in vivid detail and authentic atmosphere, the novel cements Revoyr's reputat
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Average rating: 3.77 · 5,798 ratings · 1,053 reviews · 13 distinct worksSimilar authors
Wingshooters

3.85 avg rating — 1,804 ratings — published 2011 — 9 editions
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Southland

3.98 avg rating — 1,505 ratings11 editions
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Lost Canyon

3.38 avg rating — 708 ratings — published 2015 — 7 editions
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The Age of Dreaming

3.78 avg rating — 630 ratings — published 2008 — 10 editions
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The Necessary Hunger

3.86 avg rating — 564 ratings — published 1997 — 12 editions
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A Student of History

3.37 avg rating — 547 ratings — published 2019 — 8 editions
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“She played the game the way that it was meant to be played⎼as if her life depended on it. And she seemed driven by some need, or struggle, or fundamental resolve, that preceded the basketball and made it possible..”
Nina Revoyr, The Necessary Hunger

“Live where you are, not only where you think you should be. Otherwise, you will end up living nowhere.” I”
Nina Revoyr, The Age of Dreaming: A Novel

“One of the luxuries of being obscure is that one no longer has a status to maintain.”
Nina Revoyr, The Age of Dreaming

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