The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka won the 2022 Booker. The narrator is a photographic journalist in Sri Lanka who has just died and is negotiating and afterlife in which one has seven days (or moons) to remain on earth as a ghost before entering the Light. The story comments on civil war in Sri Lanka with surreality, satire, and humor. Here’s what Kirkus Reviews says:

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/shehan-karunatilaka/the-seven-moons-of-maali-almeida/

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About Mike Wilson

Mike Wilson’s work has appeared in magazines including Cagibi Literary Journal, Stoneboat, The Aurorean, The Ocotillo Review, London Reader, and in anthologies including for a better world 2020 and Anthology of Appalachian Writers Vol. X. He received Kentucky State Poetry Society’s Chaffin/Kash Prize in 2019. He resides in Lexington, Kentucky, but summers in Ecstasy and winters in Despair.

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