The Performance Jeffrey Alford Prize(s): Short-listed International IMPAC DUBLIN

Prize(s): Short-listed International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award (2014)

It is early fall and a fuel spill has contaminated the marine foods the village was preparing to harvest

Robert Clive in India

tragedy and wonder in equal parts

They can be planted as early as the ground can be worked in spring and harvested mid-summer to make room for fall crops

The Performance Jeffrey Alford Prize(s): Short-listed International IMPAC DUBLINDescription Naive and talented, Hana Knight is a young classical pianist who has been gifted with a musical upbringing, a magnificent Steinway piano, a place at Juilliard and a patron who arranges everything, from her Manhattan apartment to her first European tour. In the midst of her meteoric career, Hana becomes increasingly aware of an unusual follower, a homeless woman named Jacqueline who sells handmade mittens and collects empties to buy tickets