Fortune Smiles
Fortune Smiles won the Story Prize and was named a New York Times Notable Book and one of the ten best books of the year by the Miami Herald, San Francisco Chronicle, and USA Today. Throughout these six stories, Pulitzer Prize winner Adam Johnson delves deep into love and loss, natural disasters, the influence of technology, and how the political shapes the personal, giving voice to the perspectives we don't often hear. In "Nirvana," a programmer whose wife has a rare disease finds solace in a digital simulacrum of the president of the United States. In "Hurricanes Anonymous," a young man searches for the mother of his son in a Louisiana devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. "George Orwell Was a Friend of Mine" follows a former warden of a Stasi prison in East Germany who vehemently denies his past, even as pieces of it are delivered in packages to his door. And in the unforgettable title story, Johnson returns to his signature subject, North Korea, depicting two defectors from Pyongyang who are trying to adapt to their new lives in Seoul, while one cannot forget the woman he left behind.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Random House
- Year
- 2015
- ISBN-13
- 9780812997484
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topics
- Love and lossPolitical and personal identityTechnology's influence on life
Awards
- National Book Award for FictionWonMajor(2015)
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