Garth
Greenwell

Garth Greenwell is the author of What Belongs to You, which won the British Book Award for Debut of the Year, was long-listed for the National Book Award, and was a finalist for six other awards, including the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Los Angeles Times  Book Prize. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, it was named a Best Book of 2016 by more than fifty publications in nine countries, and is being translated into a dozen languages. Greenwell's fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, A Public Space, and VICE, and he has written criticism for  The New Yorker, the London Review of Books, and New York Times Book Review, among other publications. He lives in Iowa City.

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Greenwell's novel is a brave and articulate psychological exploration of lust and desire.

Publishers Weekly (starred review)
on What Belongs to You

This is a project of rare discernment and beauty, and it is not to be missed. 

Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
on What Belongs to You

What Belongs to You is a searching and compassionate meditation on the slipperiness of desire, the impossibility of salvation, and the forces of shame, guilt, and yearning that often accompany love, rendered in language as beautiful and vivid as poetry.

Hanya Yanagihara
on What Belongs to You

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