"Provocative and profound in its exploration of what makes us human, The Last Language is the story of Angela's work using an experimental therapy with her nonspeaking patient, Sam, and their relationship that ensues"--
"Provocative and profound in its exploration of what makes us human, The Last Language is the story of Angela's work using an experimental therapy with her nonspeaking patient, Sam, and their relationship that ensues"--
Jennifer duBois is the author of The Last Language. Her first novel, A Partial History of Lost Causes, was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and winner of the California Book Award for First Work of Fiction. Soon after its publication, duBois received a Whiting Award and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Award. Her second novel, Cartwheel, was a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award and the winner of the Housatonic Book Award. And her third novel, The Spectators, was a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship and a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the Stanford University Stegner Fellowship, duBois teaches in the MFA program at Texas State University. She lives in Austin.
