Porochista Khakpour on Learning to Own the Discomfort of the Body
"To Find a Home in My Body is to Tell a Story That Doesn’t Exist"
June 15, 2018
By Porochista Khakpour
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Porochista Khakpour
Porochista Khakpour’s debut novel Sons and Other Flammable Objects was a New York Times Editor’s Choice, one of the Chicago Tribune’s Fall’s Best, and the 2007 California Book Award winner in the “First Fiction” category. Her second novel The Last Illusion was a 2014 "Best Book of the Year" according to NPR, Kirkus, Buzzfeed, Popmatters, Electric Literature, and many more. Her memoir Sick is now out from Harper Perennial. Among her many fellowships is a National Endowment for the Arts award. Her nonfiction has appeared in many sections of The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Elle, Slate, Salon, and Bookforum, among many others. Born in Tehran and raised in the Los Angeles area, she lives in New York City’s Harlem.
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By Porochista Khakpour
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