Preparation for the Next Life: Winner of the 2015 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

'BLISTERING' THE TIMES * 'EXTRAORDINARY' FINANCIAL TIMES

*Winner of the New York City Book Award for Fiction*

*Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Fiction*



New York Times Best of 2014

Wall Street Journal's Best of 2014

Vanity Fair's Best of 2014

Publishers Weekly's Best of 2014

BuzzFeed's Best of 2014

New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2015

Set in the underbelly of New York, Preparation for the Next Life exposes an America as seen from the fringes of society and, in devastating detail, destroys the myth of the American Dream through two of the most remarkable characters in contemporary fiction. Powerful, realistic and raw, this is one of the most ambitious - and necessary - novels of our time.