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SALVATION CITY
Written in Sigrid Nunez's deceptively simple style, SALVATION CITY is a story of love, betrayal, and forgiveness, weaving the deeply affecting story of a young boy's transformation with a profound meditation on the true meaning of salvation.
After a flu pandemic has killed large numbers of people worldwide, the United States has grown increasingly anarchic. Large numbers of children are stranded in orphanages, and systems we take for granted are fraying at the seams. When orphaned thirteen-year-old Cole Vining finds refuge with an evangelical pastor and his young wife in a small Indiana town, he knows he is one of the lucky ones. Sheltered Salvation City has been spared much of the devastation of the outside world.
But it's a starkly different community from the one Cole has known, and he struggles with what this changed world means for him. As those around him become increasingly fixated on their vision of utopia - so different from his own parents' dreams - Cole begins to imagine a new and different future for himself. Happiness becomes disquiet as he realizes the cost at which this peace comes, and the extent to which it challenges everything he knows.
Sigrid Nunez has published seven novels, including A FEATHER ON THE BREATH OF GOD, THE LAST OF HER KIND, and FOR ROUENNA. She is also the author of SEMPRE SUSAN: A MEMOIR OF SUSAN SONTAG. Her seventh novel, THE FRIEND won the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction. Among the many journals to which she has contributed are The New York Times, Threepenny Review, Harper's, McSweeney's, Tin House, The Believer, and O: The Oprah Magazine. Her honors and awards include four Pushcart Prizes, a Whiting Writer's Award, a Berlin Prize Fellowship, the Rome Prize in Literature, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Rosenthal Foundation Award.
Nunez has taught most recently at Princeton, Columbia, and Boston University and has been a visiting writer or writer in residence at Baruch, Vassar, and the University of California at Irvine, among others. She has also been on the faculty of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and of several other writers' conferences across the country. She lives in New York City.
A "wise and richly humane coming-of-age novel" O: The Oprah Magazine
But it's a starkly different community from the one Cole has known, and he struggles with what this changed world means for him. As those around him become increasingly fixated on their vision of utopia - so different from his own parents' dreams - Cole begins to imagine a new and different future for himself. Happiness becomes disquiet as he realizes the cost at which this peace comes, and the extent to which it challenges everything he knows.
Sigrid Nunez has published seven novels, including A FEATHER ON THE BREATH OF GOD, THE LAST OF HER KIND, and FOR ROUENNA. She is also the author of SEMPRE SUSAN: A MEMOIR OF SUSAN SONTAG. Her seventh novel, THE FRIEND won the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction. Among the many journals to which she has contributed are The New York Times, Threepenny Review, Harper's, McSweeney's, Tin House, The Believer, and O: The Oprah Magazine. Her honors and awards include four Pushcart Prizes, a Whiting Writer's Award, a Berlin Prize Fellowship, the Rome Prize in Literature, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Rosenthal Foundation Award.
Nunez has taught most recently at Princeton, Columbia, and Boston University and has been a visiting writer or writer in residence at Baruch, Vassar, and the University of California at Irvine, among others. She has also been on the faculty of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and of several other writers' conferences across the country. She lives in New York City.
A "wise and richly humane coming-of-age novel" O: The Oprah Magazine
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Published 2010-09-01 by Riverhead Books |