Books by Leni Zumas and Complete Book Reviews
Leni Zumas, Author . Open City $14 (168p) ISBN 978-1-890447-49-6
Zumas gives socially awkward, mysteriously gifted and self-destructive outcasts spellbinding, unflinching voice in her debut collection. The heroes in this collection are trapped; some are resigned to years of caregiving, many are institutionalized...
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Leni Zumas. Tin House (PGW, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-935639-29-9
Zumas’s debut novel comes at the reader in over a hundred self-contained, lucid pieces: a visit to a doctor in which Quinn, the teenage narrator, is ominously evasive about her weight loss; siblings bantering around the dinner table in a free fall...
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Leni Zumas. LB/Boudreaux, $26 (368p) ISBN 978-0-316-43481-2
Zumas (The Listeners) imagines a palpable, powerful alternate reality in which the United States has passed the Personhood amendment, reversing Roe v. Wade and making abortion a crime. Four women whose futures changed overnight with the passage of...
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