Global Stories That Have Expanded the “Great American” Literary Canon
A Short Survey of the Last 90 Years
The following illustrations are from America is Immigrants, by Sara Nović, illustrated by Alison Kolesar
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Excerpted from America is Immigrants by Sara Nović, illustrated by Alison Kolesar. Copyright © 2019 by Sara Nović and Alison Kolesar. Excerpted by permission of Random House. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
Sara Nović and Alison Kolesar
Sara Nović is an assistant professor of creative writing at Stockton University and the fiction editor for Blunderbuss Magazine. She holds an MFA from Columbia University, where she studied fiction and literary translation. Her first novel, Girl at War, won the American Library Association’s Alex Award, and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
Alison Kolesar grew up in Edinburgh, Scotland, and earned a history degree from the University of Oxford and a Master’s in art history from the Courtauld Institute in London before immigrating to the United States at the age of 25. She has illustrated everything from people and plants to maps and machines.
