Francine Prose is the author of sixteen books of fiction. Her novel A Changed Man won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and Blue Angel was a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction. Her most recent works of nonfiction include the highly acclaimed Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife, and the New York Times bestseller, Reading Like a Writer. Francine Prose is a former president of PEN American Center. She lives in New York City
"An illuminating and ultimately upbeat look at America's immigrant situation that all fiction readers will enjoy." -- Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal"Prose is dazzling in her sixteenth book of spiky fiction, a fast-flowing, bittersweet, brilliantly satirical immigrant story that subtly embodies the cultural complexity and political horrors of the Balkans and Bush-Cheney America." -- Donna Seaman, Booklist (starred review)"Utterly charming. Savvy about the shady practices of both US immigration authorities and immigrants themselves... Entertaining, light yet not trivial, a joy to read." -- Lionel Shriver"Prose's characters in MY NEW AMERICAN LIFE are complex and brilliantly drawn (culturally distinct but without the usual clich�s)." -- Simon Van Booy, Bomb Magazine"Nothing is beyond the artistic reach of Francine Prose" -- Shelf Awareness"A tangy mixture of satire and sentiment. . . . Ms. Prose uses her heroine's outside status to make a lot of funny . . . observations about the cosseted life of well-to-do Americans." -- Michiko Kakutani, New York Times"Prose . . . is, as always, sharply intelligent." -- NPR.org"Prose succeeds by transforming anxiety into compassion--it's a little lever that gets tripped when we truly imagine what another person feels." -- Los Angeles Times"There has been a lot written about the Bush and Cheney days, but rarely from such an amusing perspective . . . at once honest, complicated, sexy, funny and--ultimately--uplifting." -- BookPage"A superb novel . . . a wickedly entertaining read. . . . Prose is on top of her game . . . the fluidity of the prose surpassing, I think, her work in Blue Angel." -- The Millions"Prose spins the many straws of American culture into a golden tale, shimmering with hilarious, if blistering, satire." -- Helen Simonson, Washington Post"My New American Life is--happily--vintage Prose: cheerfully pessimistic, smart, funny, with characters unnervingly spot-on in their stages of outrage, denial, malaise or disillusionment." -- Miami Herald"A fast-moving novel . . . [that] brings together cultural satire, mystery, a psychosexual thriller, and political outrage. . . . Exceptionally entertaining, fun to read in its sentences, incidents, scenes." -- Michael Dirda, New York Review of Books"She's a perfect observer of American life in the opening decade of the 21st century. . . . Wry . . . witty . . . a book that brims with smart surprises." -- Ron Carlson, New York Times Book Review"Prose is in her sweet spot as a nimble chronicler of contemporary culture." -- Entertainment Weekly"In My New American Life, Francine Prose cracks open that old chestnut about the immigrant reinvention experience and injects, yes, new life into it." -- USA Today"Fun and funny, ...a satire of immigration and its discontents..." -- San Francisco Chronicle"Prose's real aim is to characterize and caricature modern American life, mostly in a gentle way that will leave readers smarter than they were before..." -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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