Ashley Nelson Levy received her MFA from Columbia University, where she was awarded the Clein-Lemann Esperanza Fellowship. Her work has been a notable mention in Best American Nonrequired Reading, and she’s the recipient of the Bambi Holmes Award for Emerging Writers. In 2015, she cofounded Transit Books, an independent publishing house with a focus on international literature.
Immediate Family is her first novel.
At Electric Lit she tagged seven books that "represent many kinds of middle states: characters may be trapped in grief, political exile, new motherhood, or the neighborhood of their youth." One title on the list:
Read about the other entries on the list.Temporary by Hilary Leichter
If we are talking about women operating in transient spaces, I don’t think a more perfect example exists than Leichter’s novel. In search of steadiness and a place to call her own, a young woman moves from temp job to temp job, filling in for a chairman of the board, for a mannequin, for a barnacle, for a mother, for a ghost. As the novel spins into the surreal, a very real question remains around how our work defines us.
--Marshal Zeringue
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