Freemans: California

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The sixth volume in the series that has been hailed by NPR, O Magazineand Vogue, Freemans: California features stunning new work from a broad selection of writers, revealing everything that is most important, most fascinating and most revealing about the populous and precarious state.

Lauren Markham describes how four generations of her family have lived in and tried to manipulate the water in one of the driest parts of the state, and how water and land means everything. Rabih Alameddine recounts becoming a bartender in the mid-1980s as his friends began to die of AIDS. Rachel Kushner reminisces about all the amazing cars shes owned and their peculiar, vivid personalities. Natalie Diaz narrates the process of making her body into a professional basketball player, and how that assembly stalled some of the internal vulnerabilities shed feel as a gay native woman growing up where she did. And Elaine Castillo goes to visit her brother in prison.

Also featuring a haunting ghost story from Oscar Villalon, bold new fiction from Tommy Orange, and stunning poems from Mai Der Vang, Juan Felipe Herrera, Maggie Millner and moreFreemans: California assembles a diverse list of brilliant writers.

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'The work is wide-ranging, by newcomers and established talentsIt tells the story of California in pieces, which is the only way it can be told...In this collection, California in all its glorious complexity comes vividly to life.' * Kirkus Reviews *
Freemans is fresh, provocative, engrossing. * BBC.com *
A terrific anthology...sure to become a classic. * San Francisco Chronicle *
Theres an illustrious new journal in town...[with] fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by new voices and literary heavyweights...alike. * Vogue.com *

Author Bio

John Freeman is the former editor of Granta and the author of books including How to Read a Novelist. He is executive editor at the Literary Hub, and teaches at the New School and New York University. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, New York Times and Paris Review, and has been translated into more than twenty languages.