Alaya Dawn Johnson
ALAYA DAWN JOHNSON has been recognized for her short fiction and YA novels, winning the 2015 Nebula Award for Best Novelette for “A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai’i,” which also appears in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy (2015), guest edited by Joe Hill. Her debut young adult novel, The Summer Prince, was longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. Her follow up, Love Is the Drug, won the Andre Norton Award in 2015. A native of Washington, D.C., Johnson is currently based in Oaxaca, having finished her masters degree in Mesoamerican studies at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.
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Trouble the Saints
- By: Alaya Dawn Johnson
- Narrator: Neil Shah
- Length: 13 hours 4 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: July 21, 2020
- Language: English
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“Narrators Shayna Small and Neil Shah transport listeners to 1940s New York in this dark fantasy set against a backdrop of racial tension and brewing war…Both narrators also excel at a range of accents, making this audiobook a fully... Read more
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