Zain Khalid

Awards: NBA (2024) see all

Genres: Literary Fiction

Novels

Brother Alive (2022)

Awards

2024 National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 : Brother Alive

Award nominations

	2023 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction (shortlist) : Brother Alive
	2022 John Leonard Prize for Best First Book (nominee) : Brother Alive

Zain Khalid recommends

The Book of Ayn (2023)
Lexi Freiman
"A maddening panorama of contemporary concerns, The Book of Ayn locks the dignified and the insouciant in hysterical alignment. Freiman is a writer of startling vision and verbal resource who deepens and subverts our cultural memory. Every sentence is liberating."

Mrs S (2023)
K Patrick
"A delicately detailed fresco of longing - I love this book."

Ghost Music (2022)
An Yu
"To read Ghost Music's spare prose is to discover its cogency. Yu allows our quiet manias to grow apace with her staggering imagination. An Yu's second novel affirms her as one of our most important writers."

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