Zain Khalid has been published in the New Yorker, the Believer, the Los Angeles Review of Books, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, and elsewhere. He has also written for television. Brother Alive is his first novel. He lives in New York City.
'a tour de force.' * Publishers Weekly * 'Brother Alive is a rigorously intelligent, wholly sensitive, and quietly rebellious work of art, with prose as profound as it is beautiful. What an inspiring examination of the waywardness of life and the grounding of love this story is. What a wise, thoughtful writer Zain Khalid is. What a gift to humanity this book is.' * Robert Jones, Jr., New York Times-bestselling author of The Prophets * 'A novel with the polish and warmth of a stone smoothed in the hand after a lifetime of loving worry-original, darkly witty, sometimes bitter, and so very wise. And certainly the debut of a major new writer.' * Alexander Chee, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel *