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Published 15 October 2019
ISBN 9781922268457
Format Trade Paperback
Extent 336pp
AU Price $32.99
NZ Price $38.00

Freeman's

The Best New Writing on California



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The sixth volume in one of the most exciting and innovative literary series of recent years, Freeman’s: California features stunning new work by Tommy Orange, Rabih Alameddine, Rachel Kushner, Mai Der Vang, Reyna Grande and more.

The sixth volume in the series that has been hailed by NPR, O Magazine and Vogue, Freeman’s: California features stunning new work from a broad selection of writers, revealing everything that is most important, most fascinating and most revealing about the populous and precarious state.

Lauren Markham describes how four generations of her family have lived in and tried to manipulate the water in one of the driest parts of the state, and how water and land means everything. Rabih Alameddine recounts becoming a bartender in the mid-1980s as his friends began to die of AIDS. Rachel Kushner reminisces about all the amazing cars she’s owned and their peculiar, vivid personalities. Natalie Diaz narrates the process of making her body into a professional basketball player, and how that assembly stalled some of the internal vulnerabilities she’d feel as a gay native woman growing up where she did. And Elaine Castillo goes to visit her brother in prison.

Also featuring a haunting ghost story from Oscar Villalon, bold new fiction from Tommy Orange, and stunning poems from Mai Der Vang, Juan Felipe Herrera, Maggie Millner and more—Freeman’s: California assembles a diverse list of brilliant writers.

Published 15 October 2019
ISBN 9781922268457
Format Trade Paperback
Extent 336pp
AU Price $32.99
NZ Price $38.00

About the author

John Freeman

John Freeman is an award-winning writer and book critic who has written for numerous publications, including the New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times, Guardian andWall Street Journal. He is the former editor of Granta and the author of Shrinking the World and a collection of author interviews How to Read a Novelist. He lives in New York City

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