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My New American Life by Francine Prose

My New American Life: A Novel BY Francine Prose. Harper. Hardcover, 320 pages. $25.
The cover of My New American Life: A Novel

Early in her writing life, Francine Prose developed an unmistakable voice: sharp, ironic, intelligent, uncompromising. Using this voice the way a miner uses a headlamp, she has crawled her way into the darkest corners of American life — suburbia, academia, post-Columbine public schools, society and culture post-9/11.