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"The Book of Splendor" named a 'Distinguished Story' in the 2018 BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES. Read it here.

"The Eleventh Happiest Country" now up on the NEW ENGLAND REVIEW.
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​"The Baghdadi" receives Special Mention in the 2014 PUSHCART PRIZE. 

Joan leegant

Joan Leegant is the author of a novel, Wherever You Go (W.W. Norton) and a story collection, An Hour in Paradise (W.W. Norton), which won the Winship PEN New England Book Award and the Edward Lewis Wallant Award, and was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award and a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick. Joan has taught at Harvard, Oklahoma State, Cornish College of the Arts, and Bar-Ilan University in Israel where she was the visiting writer from 2007-2013. From 2014-2016 she was the writer-in-residence at Hugo House in Seattle. She lives in Newton, Massachusetts. 
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PEN/NEW ENGLAND BOOK AWARD
FINALIST, NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD
BARNES & NOBLE 'DISCOVER GREAT NEW WRITERS' PICK

 “Prose of fine-boned clarity and compassion.” New York Times

“A gifted creator of people and worlds.” Publishers Weekly

“[A] richly contemplative collection by turns comical and disquieting.”
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"These stories cut deep and carry weight." - Boston Globe

"Each story is a gift, a guided tour of a perfect small calamity of the heart and soul." Elinor Lipman

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“Timely and brave. Leegant is a masterful weaver.” Miami Herald

“A cautionary tale about the danger of a narrow ideology.” Times Literary Supplement

“Not since the warring Zuckerman brothers in Philip Roth's The CounterLife have the exigencies of settler politics and secular desires been so cogently addressed in a work of fiction. Who says the novel has lost its relevance? This one should be required reading.”  Jonathan Wilson, author of A Palestine Affair

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