"seeing the opportunity in tomorrow": An Interview with Jason Mott

(2011), and he was nominated for a 2009 Pushcart Prize.1 Mott's most recent novel, The Crossing, was released in 2018.2 The novel follows two runaway orphaned twins, Virginia and Tommy, as they journey to Cape Canaveral to watch the launch of a probe that will explore Jupiter's moon Europa...

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Published in:North Carolina literary review 2019-01 (28), p.36-42
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