It was named one of the best books of the year by Kirkus Reviews, Booklist and The Wall Street Journal.
Originally from Western Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh), he lives in Brussels, Belgium.
His work has appeared in Ploughshares, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The North Atlantic Review, McSweeney's, and on MSNBC.com.
Dau worked for 10 years in the post-Yugoslav Wars reconstruction of Eastern Europe and Bosnia.
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