Sandi Tan was born in Singapore. She directed the Netflix Original Documentary "Shirkers," which won a Directing award at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, was named Best Documentary by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and was shortlisted for the 2019 Academy Award for Best Documentary. "The Black Isle" was her debut novel. She's lived in Los Angeles for twenty years but everyone still thinks she lives in New York.
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"Peter Baker is that rare confident novelist with the most delicate touch. With his twin dramas unfolding on separate planes in Rome and in North Carolina, he shows us that the invisible network connecting everyone can be just as much impersonal actions taken by Washington as intimate domestic secrets that go unshared. Baker has the eye of a seasoned journalist and the ear of a poet; I can't wait to be absorbed in whatever he writes next."
Bibliolepsy (1997)
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"For all those who've wondered if there exists a female Roberto Bolano--lusty, word-drunk, and ferociously committed to her milieu--here's Gina Apostol!"