Peter Ho Davies, Redux Edition (2017 Fiction)

Peter Ho Davies, the 2017 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards winner for fiction, becomes the first guest to sit down for a second time with The Asterisk*. This time we caught up with him on the heels of the release of his latest novel, “A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself.” It begins as a mother asks herself, “Abortion has been legal all my life. Why do I feel like a criminal?” Davies grew up in Coventry, England, the son of a Welsh engineer and a Malaysian Chinese dentist. His first novel “The Welsh Girl,” longlisted for the Booker Prize, explores questions of Welshness. “There are some stories that require as much courage to write as they do art,” said novelist Sigrid Nunez about Davies’ most recent title. “Peter Ho Davies’s achingly honest, searingly comic portrait of fatherhood is just such a story...The world needs more stories like this one, more of this kind of courage, more of this kind of love.” Davies joined The Asterisk* in Cleveland in September of 2022 after giving the convocation speech at Case Western Reserve University. He lives in Ann Arbor, Mich. with his wife, Lynne Raughley. Davies is a professor of creative writing at the University of Michigan.