Preparation for the Next Life

Atticus Lish is an American novelist and the son of literary agent and publisher Gordon Lish. His debut novel Preparation for the Next Life (2014) is a spare, intense love story between a Muslim Uyghur woman who has illegally emigrated to the United States and an Iraq War veteran suffering from PTSD, set against the backdrop of New York City's immigrant underground. The novel was published by Tyrant Books, a small independent press, and received extraordinary critical praise for its prose, its characterisation, and its moral seriousness. Read more →