Edie Meidav
LOLA,CALIFORNIA now out
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preview of most anticipated 2011 books
The Millions
LOLA a WNYC Arts Highlight for 2011
thumbs-up from Champion
Lola, California blog
Birth of a blog not a nation: a diary turned inside out, footmarks upon it
Podcast interview about Crawl Space
At Cafe Med
Excerpt from CAUTIONARY TALES, forthcoming artist's book
Collaboration with painter Ken Stout
Quirky Scottish imbroglio
Dreaming of a common language
LitBlog Coop Nomination of Crawl Space
Literary blogs discussing the novel
Readers' Circle
Link to book groups
The Daily Freeman
Bard fiction prize newspaper link
The Far Field: A Novel of Ceylon
WINNER OF THE KAFKA AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN WOMAN
Edie Meidav is a student of human bewilderment. In her first novel — about an American called Henry Gould trying to establish a utopian community in the British colony of Ceylon — she's woven the blundering figure of a holy fool into a bristling tapestry of local life. The Far Field is historical fiction without a shred of nostalgia, and its plot is finally justified by Meidav's scarifying emotional honesty and visceral sense of place.
-- The Village Voice
-- The Village Voice