Fatin Abbas received her MFA from Hunter College, where she was a recipient of the Bernard Cohen Short Story Prize and the Miriam Weinberg Richter Award. Her writing has appeared in Granta, Freeman’s, and the Nation.
She lives in Berlin, Germany.
Abbas's new novel is Ghost Season.
At the Guardian she tagged ten books "that envision families of choice in all their beauty, complexity, and occasional dysfunction." One title on the list:
The Overstory by Richard PowersRead about the other entries on the list.
To choose family in this epic environmental novel is to step outside of human society and into the natural world. A group of environmental activists side withtrees against fellow humans who seek to raze ancient forests for profit. The trees in this novel are as alive and sharply drawn as the human characters, and, in their capacity for cooperation and communication, they provide a blueprint for a more balanced and just human society.
The Overstory is among Andrew Siegrist's eight titles that capture the essence of Tennessee, Katie Yee's ten titles that make the Earth come alive, and Lia Leendertz's six best books to celebrate spring.
--Marshal Zeringue
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