author, 'Mislaid'
Author of the novels Mislaid and The Wallcreeper
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Nell Zink
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FROM Nell Zink
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KCRW in Berlin: Author Nell Zink Nell Zink’s funny new novel, Mislaid, tells the story of a family in Virginia: a lesbian and a gay man who have two children. They’re white—but when Peggy decides to leave her husband, she co-opts the identity of a black child for her daughter, and lives as a black woman herself.
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