BOOKS BY LIZ PRATO
A New York Times Top Summer Read
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VOLCANOES, PALM TREES, AND PRIVILEGE: ESSAYS ON HAWAI‘I
OREGON BOOK AWARD FINALIST
“For fans of Sarah Vowell and Kaui Hart Hemmings, Liz Prato's essay collection is an essential introduction to Hawai`i that explores the islands’ mythos and reality. — KRISTIANA KAHAKAUWILA, author of This Is Paradise
“Liz Prato’s profound meditations on place dislocate and then relocate understandings of Hawaiʻi from the point of view of the non-native visitor. This book is a love letter to the land and people of Hawaiʻi . . . Breathtaking." —LIDIA YUKNAVITCH, author of The Chronology of Water
"Liz Prato's Volcanoes, Palm Trees, and Privilege is the most readable and personal work of political ecology I know." —PAUL ROBBINS, Ph.D., Director, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Liz Prato’s fearless and tender investigation of our complex relationship with Hawai‘i will blow your mind. Hula dancers, aloha shirts, surfing, and the idyllic tropical vacation will never look the same." —KAREN KARBO, author of In Praise of Difficult Women
" Liz Prato is beautifully smart about how dis- empowerment works, and how to combat it." —JIM SHEPARD, author of The Book of Aron
KIDS IN AMERICA: A GEN X RECKONING
A POWELL’S BOOKS
PICK OF THE MONTH
"Liz Prato writes with clear vision about the generation that followed the baby boomers. This book is a long-overdue examination and reconciliation of the people and the era.” 
Photo by A.B. Forster“KIDS IN AMERICA is a kick-ass collection. ” —DINTY W. MOORE
"In blending her cultural critique with personal stories, Prato calls to mind Joan Didion's later writing." —SPECTRUM CULTURE
“Like a sociologist with a memoirist's sensibilities, Prato skillfully explores the environment that bred and defined Gen X.” —GINA FRANGELLO,author of Blow Your House Down
“From rape culture and mental illness to a deep dive into Beverly Hills, 90210, Kids in America is an insightful and moving education—necessary reading on the slacker generation.” –ERIN KHAR, author of Strung Out: A Memoir of Overcoming Addiction
“Kids in America vibrates like a coke high, while still managing to ask hard questions and find the spots of human failing and hope, as the best essays do.” —MONICA DRAKE, author of Clown Girl
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BABY’S ON FIRE
“Liz Prato’s characters blaze with humanity, sensuality, and hope.” —DYLAN LANDIS, author of Rainey Royal
“Baby’s on Fire is a lamentation brimming with wit, candor, and the eternal possibility of mercy." —STEVE ALMOND, author of God Bless America
“Liz Prato’s stories are funny and warm as can be, so even when they are painful and sad, they still genuinely welcome a reader.” —AIMEE BENDER, author of The Butterfly Lampshade
"Prato’s prose is widely appealing and many-layered; her language is breezy and deceptively casual, while her content is visceral.” —The Atticus Review
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THE NIGHT, AND THE RAIN, AND THE RIVER
ed. By Liz Prato
“Like the varied and verdant landscape of the Pacific Northwest, the stories in The Night, and the Rain, and the River will make you gasp and grow your heart. These stories offer up bright light in our often overcast skies.” – NATALIE SERBER, author of Shout Her Lovely Name
Featuring writing by: Margaret Malone * Gail Bartley * Matthew Robinson * Scott Sparling * Jackie Shannon Hollis * Dylan Lee * Domi Shoemaker * Lois Rosen * Sage Cohen * Steve Denniston * Trevor Dodge * Alisha Churbe * Tammy Lynne Stoner * Gregg Kleiner * Jan Baross * Christi Krug * Ellen Levine * Cindy Williams Gutiérrez * Kathleen Lane * Joanna Rose
SHORT WORK
Many of the stories and essays in Liz’s first three books were previously published in literary journals and magazines, including River Teeth, Salon, Carolina Quarterly, Hunger Mountain, Hawai‘i Pacific Review, The Los Angeles Review, Hawai‘i Review, Potomac Review, Baltimore Review, Storyglossia, Berkeley Fiction Review, Cream City Review, and Sport Literate. Her essays have been chosen as Notable Works in Best American Essays and Best American Sports Writing.
Other short work by Liz includes:
We Are the Other Girls of Stars Hollow and We Deserve Recognition Too, Mc Sweeney’s
The Ultimate Top 10 Gen X Movies, Medium
On Didion’s Trail at the Royal Hawaiian, Essay Daily
This is Your Birth Certificate, Hayden’s Ferry Review
Walking Down the Aisle, Medium
In Sickness and in Health, The Rumpus
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