Hannah Lillith Assadi teaches fiction at the Columbia University School of the Arts. Her first novel Sonora (Soho 2017) received the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a finalist for the PEN/ Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. In 2018, she was named a National Book Foundation 5 under 35 honoree. Her second novel The Stars Are Not Yet Bells is forthcoming from Riverhead in 2022. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.
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Genres: Historical, Literary Fiction
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