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Tiphanie Yanique is the author of How to Escape from a Leper Colony. She has won the Boston Review Prize in Fiction, a Pushcart Prize a Fulbright in Creative Writing and an Academy of American Poet's Prize. Her work has also appeared in Callaloo, Transition Magazine, American Short Fiction, & the London Magazine. She is an assistant professor of creative writing & Caribbean Literature at Drew University. The Boston Globe listed her as one of sixteen cultural figures to watch out for in 2010."

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	Land of Love and Drowning 3.34 avg rating — 3,989 ratings — published 2014 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Escape from a Leper Colony 3.83 avg rating — 315 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wife 4.11 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Saving Work 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2007	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bare Lit 2016 by Kavita Bhanot (Editor), Courttia Newland (Editor) , Mend Mariwany (Editor) 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Trinidad Noir by Lisa Allen-Agostini (Editor), Jeanne Mason (Editor) , Keith Jardim 3.56 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ocean State Review Vol. 3 No. 1 by Rachel May (Editor), Roger Bonair-Agard (Contributor) , Barrie Jean Borich (Contributor) 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Running, you should know, is a kind of stillness.”
― Tiphanie Yanique, How to Escape from a Leper Colony

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“The idea that people who guarded you could also be the people that you needed guarding from was nothing anyone should have to learn.”
― Tiphanie Yanique, Land of Love and Drowning

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“Despite her light skin, despite the obviousness that more of her ancestors had owned slaves than had been them, how could she lose? We're open like that. We like to know that people love us; we don't care how they look.”
― Tiphanie Yanique, How to Escape from a Leper Colony

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What should we read for the inaugural Graywolf Press Book Club? The winning book will be announced on April 14th and the first Graywolf Press Book Club will begin April 15th!

Check out the group's bookshelf for more information on these titles.

How to Escape from a Leper Colony: A Novella and Stories by Tiphanie Yanique

7 votes 43.8%

Vanishing Point: Not a Memoir by Ander Monson

4 votes 25.0%

Your Presence Is Requested at Suvanto: A Novel by Maile Chapman

3 votes 18.8%

Ghosts of Wyoming: Stories by Alyson Hagy

1 vote 6.3%

Obabakoak by Bernardo Atxaga

1 vote 6.3%

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