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My New American Life book. Francine Prose captures contemporary America at its most hilarious and dreadful in My New American Life, a darkly humorous novel of mismatched aspirations, Albanian gangsters, and the ever-elusive American dream.

My New American Life: A Novel. Francine Prose is a world-classsatirist who’s also a world-class storyteller

My New American Life: A Novel. Francine Prose is a world-classsatirist who’s also a world-class storyteller. Russell Banks Francine Prose captures contemporary America at itsmost hilarious and dreadful in My New American Life, a darkly humorousnovel of mismatched aspirations, Albanian gangsters, and the dream. Following her New York Times bestselling novels BlueAngel and A Changed Man, Prose delivers the darkly humorous storyof Lula, a twenty-something Albanian immigrant trying to find stability andcomfort in New York City in the charged aftermath of 9/11.

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Also by Francine Prose. They were always telling Lula she should write a memoir about her old Albanian life and now her new one in the United States. Don even had a title, My New American Life. Chapter One. The day after Lula’s lawyer called to tell her she was legal, three Albanian guys showed up in a brand-new black Lexus SUV. She had been staring out her window at the drizzly afternoon and thinking that the mulberry tree on Mister Stanley’s front lawn had waited to drop its last few leaves until it knew she was watching. Lula had a better title, Stranger in a Strange Land, but she’d already seen it in the public library. Maybe she could still use it.

Francine Prose is a world-classsatirist who’s also a world-class storyteller.

My New American Life: A . .has been added to your Cart. Nothing is beyond the artistic reach of Francine Prose"-Shelf Awareness. Prose succeeds by transforming anxiety into compassion-it's a little lever that gets tripped when we truly imagine what another person feels. Prose spins the many straws of American culture into a golden tale, shimmering with hilarious, if blistering, satire. -Helen Simonson, Washington Post. -San Francisco Chronicle.

Francine Prose has just such a sharp protagonist in her wry novel, My New American Life, a book that brims .

Francine Prose has just such a sharp protagonist in her wry novel, My New American Life, a book that brims with smart surprises. Then again, as she notes, everyone in George Bush and Dick Cheney’s America seems to be worried: It was just a matter of time before someone on Fox News got the bright idea of sending back the Pilgrims. Lula is alert and full of longing and beautifully out of place.

My New American Life. Prose’s characters in MY NEW AMERICAN LIFE are complex and brilliantly drawn (culturally distinct but without the usual clichés). Prose is dazzling in her sixteenth book of spiky fiction, a fast-flowing, bittersweet, brilliantly satirical immigrant story that subtly embodies the cultural complexity and political horrors of the Balkans and Bush-Cheney America. Simon Van Booy, Bomb Magazine. Nothing is beyond the artistic reach of Francine Prose - Shelf Awareness. A tangy mixture of satire and sentiment.