Inspired by the story of John Walker Lindh, the “American Taliban,” Whiting Award–winning author John Wray explores the circumstances that could impel a young American to abandon identity and home to
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Possessing paranoid schizophrenic beliefs that he can save the planet from climate change by cooling down his own overheated body, 16-year-old New York youth Will Heller pursues a terrifying and delus
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This extraordinary debut novel from Whiting Writers’ Award winner John Wray is a poetic portrait of a life redeemed at one of the darkest moments in world history.Twenty years after deserting the army
Providing hope and inspiration for a more purposeful life in a troubled world, My Memoirs narrates the life story of Mary Webb Wray who was born in 1917 in Boydton, Virginia. Written at the age of nin
