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Joanna Scott

Biography

Joanna Scott

Joanna Scott is the author of 10 books, including THE MANIKIN, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; VARIOUS ANTIDOTES and ARROGANCE, which were both finalists for the PEN/Faulkner Award; and the critically acclaimed MAKE BELIEVE, TOURMALINE, LIBERATION and FOLLOW ME. She is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Lannan Award.

Joanna Scott

Books by Joanna Scott

by Joanna Scott - Fiction, Historical Fiction

A gripping novel about a seemingly charmed marriage and a mysterious disappearance at sea.

by Joanna Scott

Adriana Nardi is only 10 years old when Allied forces occupy her island home during World War II, plaguing the Italian village with violence and uncertainty. Amdu is a Senegalese soldier who abandons his comrades and befriends Adriana. Decades later, 60-year-old Adriana revisits her memories of the war and her doomed relationship with Amdu, even as a present crisis threatens her life.