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Adjunct Assistant Professor of Writing Hannah Lillith Assadi was longlisted for the National Book Award for her novel Paradiso 17. The novel is “a study in inheritance, in the afterlife of ideology, in the way history seeps into every curated idyll,” writes Zain Khalid in The New York Times. “Paradiso 17 is not merely about Palestine, but about the stubborn fact that your past, however aestheticized, refuses to remain background. It might just kill you.”