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Stork Mountain: A Novel                     (March 2016, Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Stork Mountain: A NovelIn Stork Mountain, a young Bulgarian immigrant returns to the country of his birth in search of his grandfather, who suddenly and unexpectedly cut all contact with the family three years ago. The trail leads him to a village on the border with Turkey, a stone’s throw away from Greece, high up in the Strandja Mountains − a place of pagan mysteries and black storks nesting in giant oaks; a place where every spring, possessed by Christian saints, men and women dance barefoot across live coals in search of rebirth. Here in the mountains, he gets drawn by his grandfather into a maze of half-truths. And here, he falls in love with an unobtainable Muslim girl. Old ghosts come back to life and forgotten conflicts blaze anew until the past surrenders its shameful secrets.
 

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Stork Mountain longlisted for the 2016 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
Read the opening chapter of Stork Mountain on Lit Hub
An Interview for Barnes and Noble Review (July 2016)
An Interview for Electric Literature (March 2016)
An Interview for Fiction Writers Review (March 2016)
Literary Mixtape for The Guardian (March 2016)

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