Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
Author of Call Me Zebra
About the Author
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Works by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
Girona 1 copy
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- Birthdate
- 20th century
- Gender
- female
- Education
- Brown University (MFA)
University of California, San Diego (BA) - Occupations
- professor
writer - Organizations
- University of Notre Dame, Indiana
- Awards and honors
- National Book Foundation, 5 Under 35 Honoree (2015)
- Agent
- Kate Johnson (MacKenzie Wolf)
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- Works
- 5
- Also by
- 1
- Members
- 298
- Popularity
- #78,715
- Rating
- 3.2
- Reviews
- 17
- ISBNs
- 23
- Languages
- 1
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- 1
Zebra is... a lot. She’s a lot! Obsessed, over the top, heedless of anyone else’s feelings, deeply wounded. The repetitive philosophizing that also wore me down the first time still was there this time, though I didn’t mind it quite so much now, and the pathos of Zebra struggling to accept that she needs love in a cruel universe of meaningless suffering, near the end of the book, was more affecting.
So, better!
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Slap me with a pickle, this is in the upcoming Tournament of Books. I’ll try it again.
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Oloomi writes with such an air of unreality. Her debut novel took place within the mind of a madman and this, her second, continues its repetitive, circling patterns. Not for me.… (more)