Jackie Thomas-Kennedy‘s writing has been selected for NPR’s Selected Shorts, and she was a 2014 Stegnar Fellow as well as the winner of the 2019 Stella Kupferberg Memorial Short Story Prize. Her debut novel, The Other Wife, follows Zuzu, a biracial woman in her late thirties, as she reflects on the choices that shaped her life, including her career and marriage to Agnes. A sudden loss sends her back to her hometown where she must confront her past and face the what could have beens face to face.
We asked Thomas-Kennedy to answer our recurring My Reading Life Q&A so readers could get to know the books that influenced her life and inspired her debut book.
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