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Her nonfiction has also appeared in guernica, vice, new york magazine, the believer, the guardian and the new york times. Named one of the best books of 2015 by bookpage, booklist and electric literature, her story of a wartorn countrys people uprooted from their homes has become starkly relevant. Here, novic responds to questions posed her about the novels development, her relationship with her characters, and the one question she wishes she were asked about her novel and her answer to it. Sara novics stunning debut novel, girl at war, concerns the realities of war and their effect on and shaping of a girls coming of age. Novic is most notable for her debut novel, girl at war, which tells the story of ana juric, a tenyearold girl whose life is upended by the civil war that resulted in the dissolution of. Moving back and forth through time, girl at war is an honest, generous, brilliantly written novel that illuminates how history shapes the individual. Novic says he was inspired by a professor she had at emerson as an undergrad, whose office was similarly crammed with piledup books. For readers of the tigers wife and all the light we cannot see comes a powerful debut novel about a girls coming of ageand. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading girl at war.
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