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Sara Nović is author of the NYT best-seller TRUE BIZ, as well as the novel GIRL AT WAR, (2015, winner American Library Association Alex Award, longlist Women's Prize, finalist for the LA Times Fiction prize) and the illustrated nonfiction collection AMERICA IS IMMIGRANTS (2019). She's an instructor of creative writing and Deaf studies, and lives in Philly with her family.

Visit her on the web at http://sara-novic.com or
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Sara Nović My first published fiction was a short story in The Minnesota Review. The submission/publication process for it was not a very interesting story, real…moreMy first published fiction was a short story in The Minnesota Review. The submission/publication process for it was not a very interesting story, really--I was in school and submitting to slush piles just like everybody else. Now, because of platforms like Submittable, it's getting easier to do simultaneous submissions and keep track of them, but then most literary magazines were still getting their act together for online submissions at that point, so I had made a spreadsheet listing where I'd sent my stories and when and whether I'd heard back. I submitted the story to a few places and got some rejections, and then, finally, the acceptance. I was, of course, really excited--even more so when the magazine finally showed up in my mailbox later!(less)
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Mother Tongue: A Memoir

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“...I knew in the end the guilt of one side did not prove the innocence of the other.”
Sara Nović, Girl at War

“Their musings about how and why people stayed in a country under such terrible conditions were what I hated most. I knew it was ignorance, not insight that prompted these questions. they asked because they hadn't smelled the air raid smoke or the scent of singed flesh on their own balconies; they couldn't fathom that such a dangerous place could still harbor all the feelings of home.”
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“Music, I'd heard him say, was like dessert. He could live without it, but life just wasn't as good.”
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Donna Sara,
Thank you for friending me on Good Reads and I am also following you on Twitter.

Hope you are having a wonderful summer.
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