Asale Angel-Ajani
Asale Angel-Ajani is a writer and Professor at The City College of New York. She’s the author of the nonfiction books Strange Trade: The Story of Two Women Who Risked Everything in the International Drug Trade and Intimate: Essays on Racial Terror. She has held residencies at Millay, Djerassi, and Playa, and is an alum of VONA and Tin House. A Country You Can Leave is her first novel.
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A Country You Can Leave
- By: Asale Angel-Ajani
- Narrator: Amanda Cordner
- Length: 9 hours 12 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: February 21, 2023
- Language: English
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“From page one, A Country You Can Leave is a riveting, exasperating, and deeply heartbreaking tale of mother-daughter strife and resilience.” —Xochitl Gonzalez, author of Olga Dies Dreaming
A stunning debut novel following the... Read more
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