A gut-wrenching love story between an illegal migrant from the Uyghur tribe in Asia and a damaged Iraq veteran set in the underbelly of New York.
Now in paperback, this is a contemporary novel set in New York, about a relationship between an illegal immigrant from China and a soldier damaged by 3 tours in Iraq. It won the Pen/Faulkner Prize for Fiction 2015 and the Paris Review Plimpton Prize 2015.