A surprising, incisive, refreshingly irreverent debut novel about a young physicist who finds herself exiled to an island research institute that gives safe harbour to 'cancelled' artists and academics, throwing her into crises of work, marriage, and cons
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Julius Taranto’s writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, Chronicle of Higher Education, and Phoebe. He attended Yale Law School and Pomona College. How I Won A Nobel Prize is his first novel. He lives in New York.
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