The Fortune Men is a finalist for the Booker award. The week of our email exchange between Nadifa Mohamed in London and my base in Sonoma County, it was announced that her novel also was shortlisted for the Costa award. She also has won the Betty Trask award and the Somerset Maugham award, and was … Continue reading “A Story That Wouldn’t Let Me Go.” Nadifa Mohamed on the 1952 Case at the Heart of Her Novel