One of his six powerful books about characters in impossible situations, as shared at The Week magazine:
Girl at War by Sara NovićRead about another entry on the list.
This powerful, gorgeous debut novel moves back and forth in time from the protagonist's childhood experience of civil war in the Balkans to her postwar attempt to live a normal life in New York. Haunted and adrift, she must return to Croatia to confront the secrets she left behind there.
--Marshal Zeringue