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—Madison Smartt Bell, author of All Souls’ Rising
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— Booklist, Starred Review
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―Publishers Weekly
—The New Yorker
—The New Yorker
—Karen Joy Fowler, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award
—Karen Joy Fowler, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award
— Peter Cozzens, author of The Earth is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West
— Peter Cozzens, author of The Earth is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West
— Elizabeth McKenzie, Author of National Book Award long-listed The Portable Veblen
— Elizabeth McKenzie, Author of National Book Award long-listed The Portable Veblen
—Vaddey Ratner, PEN/Hemingway Finalist, Author of In the Shadow of the Banyan
—Vaddey Ratner, PEN/Hemingway Finalist, Author of In the Shadow of the Banyan
—Dominic Smith, author of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos
—Dominic Smith, author of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos
—Meg Waite Clayton, Langum Prize-honored author of The Race for Paris
—Meg Waite Clayton, Langum Prize-honored author of The Race for Paris
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Best Fiction of 2019, True West Magazine
Finalist, 2019 High Plains Book Award
Simpson Family Literary Project Longlist
Chautauqua Prize Longlist
Willa Literary Award Finalist
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"The Last Good Paradise is at once a study in ambition, and a rollicking entertainment...and a page-turning survey of modern technology. Just when you think you know where this novel is going, Soli fascinates and surprises at every twist and turn."
—Jonathan Evison, author of West of Here

"Daring... haunting... The lesson Soli has to teach... is a salient one for the modern world: even a remote citrus ranch can be a crossroads where cultures collide, and those collisions can be life-changing for everyone involved."
—NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, JANE SMILEY

"Soli's spare, lucid prose infuses this novel with a dramatic clarity that makes us eyewitnesses to the collapse of two civilizations. More than that, The Lotus Eaters helps us to see and hear and feel the terrible human costs of that conflagration."
—TIM O'BRIEN, NATIONAL BOOK AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE THINGS THEY CARRIED
Tatjana Soli is a novelist and short story writer. Her bestselling debut novel, The Lotus Eaters, winner of the James Tait Black Prize, was a New York Times Notable Book for 2010, and finalist for the LA Times Book Award among other honors. Her second book, The Forgetting Tree, was a New York TimesNotable Book for 2012. Her third novel, The Last Good Paradise, was a Millions Most Anticipated Book for 2015. Her stories have appeared in Zyzzyva, Boulevard, and The Sun. Her work has been twice listed in the 100 Distinguished Stories in Best American Short Stories. She lives in the Monterey Peninsula area of California…read more