2012
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4.20
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88
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In her second collection, Idra Novey steps in and out of jails, courthouses, and caves to explore what confinement means in the twenty-first century. From the beeping doors of a prison in New York to cellos playing in a former jail in Chile, she looks at prisons that have opened, closed, and transformed to examine how the stigma of incarceration has altered American families, including her own. Novey writes of the expanding prison complex that was once a field and imagines what’s next for the civilians who enter and exit it each day.
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4.20
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Author
Idra Novey
Author · 9 books
Idra Novey is the award-winning author of WAYS TO DISAPPEAR and THOSE WHO KNEW. Her new novel TAKE WHAT YOU NEED is set in the Allegheny Highlands of Appalachia where parts of her family have lived for over a century. She's written for The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and she received a 2022 Pushcart Prize for her story The Glacier. Her fiction and poetry have been translated into a dozen languages. She teaches fiction at Princeton University and in the MFA Program at NYU.
