Nani Power grew up in Virginia and was educated in the US and in France. She has worked in catering in Brazil and as a sushi chef in New York, and is now working on her second novel.
Power's writing is stellar, her sentences popping like fireworks into gorgeous explosions of evocation, visceral, crisp and unexpected * Observer * Complex and daring, its firework prose illuminating the darkness of the ordinary * Independent on Sunday * A formidable young writer... Power unpacks her character's emotions with a firm, graceful hand * New York Times * A passionate, intelligent, and piercingly beautiful. It is an altogether striking debut -- Mary Gaitskill With a sushi-chef hero, a waitress heroine and a cast of hungry-for-love characters, this novel is flavoursome and fulfilling * Harpers & Queen *