Joan Leegant is the author of the novel Wherever You Go and the story collection An Hour in Paradise. Her collection Displaced Persons: Stories won the 2022 New American Fiction Prize and will be published in May 2024 by New American Press.
Joan Leegant
By Joan Leegant
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