joan leegant

Winner of the New American Fiction Prize

DISPLACED PERSONS: Stories

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Coming in June 2024

"Wise and thought provoking."

Alice Elliot Dark, author of Fellowship Point

"A stunning collection of literary excellence."

Weike Wang, author of Chemistry and Joan is Okay

"Elegant and heartbreakingly true stories."

Eileen Pollack, author of Maybe It's Me: On Being the Wrong Kind of Woman

"This book is beautiful and wonderfully readable. I loved it."

Charles Baxter, author of The Feast of Love

"...funny and harrowing stories...excellent collection that addresses difficult issues of Jewish identity and social expectations about marriage and family with complexity." Foreward Reviews

About

Joan Leegant's story collection, DISPLACED PERSONS: STORIES, winner of the New American Fiction Prize, will be out in June 2024.

Her earlier books won the PEN/New England Book Award, the Wallant Award for Jewish Fiction, and finalist citation for the National Jewish Book Award and selection as a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick.

From 2007 to 2013, Joan was the visiting writer at Bar-Ilan University outside Tel Aviv where she also gave talks on American literature and culture under the auspices of the U.S. Embassy and was a volunteer ESL teacher for African refugees and asylum seekers, experiences that made their way into her fiction. She lives in Newton, Massachusetts.

PRESS

"In the funny and harrowing short stories of Joan Leegant’s excellent collection Displaced Persons, characters navigate myriad forms of displacement, from putting a new life together after divorce to finding their place in an adopted country....stories [that] address difficult issues of Jewish identity and social expectations about marriage and family with complexity."

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