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Garth Risk Hallberg
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Garth Risk Hallberg

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Garth Risk Hallberg’s first novel, City on Fire, was an international bestseller and was named one of the best books of the year by the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian, the Washington Post, the Independent, and Vogue, among others. His illustrated novella, A Field Guide to the North American Family was nominated for a Believer Book Award and his short fiction and essays have been published in the Guardian, and the New York Times Book Review. He is a Granta Best Young American Novelist. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and children and is at work on a new novel.

Books by Garth Risk Hallberg

A Field Guide to the North American Family

The debut from the bestselling author of City on Fire, now published in the UK for the first time – a dazzlingly original illustrated novella about the lives of two seemingly ordinary families

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City on Fire

Among the most eagerly anticipated and addictive novels of recent years

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