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Rahna Reiko Rizzuto

Rahna Reiko Rizzuto is the author of the memoir “Hiroshima in the Morning,” which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle. Her debut novel, “Why She Left Us,” won an American Book Award. The first woman to graduate from Columbia College with a BA in Astrophysics, she was raised in Hawaii and lives in Brooklyn. “Shadow Child” is her most recent novel, just published in May 2018 by Grand Central Publishing.