Oct 01 2014
The National Book Foundation has announced the 2014 "5 Under 35" honorees, recognizing five young fiction writers. The honorees are all chosen by previous National Book Award winners and finalists:
Yelena Akhtiorskaya, Panic in a Suitcase (Riverhead, July 2014). Selected by Aleksandar Hemon.
Alex Gilvarry, From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant (Viking, January 2012). Selected by Amy Bloom.
Phil Klay, Redeployment (Penguin, March 2014). Selected by Andrea Barrett.
Valeria Luiselli, Faces in the Crowd (Coffee House, May 2014). Selected by Karen Tei Yamashita.
Kirstin Valdez Quade, Night at the Fiestas (Norton, March 2015). Selected by Andre Dubus III.
They will be honored November 17 - at the start of National Book Awards Week.
The Flower Sisters
by Michelle Collins Anderson
From the new Fannie Flagg of the Ozarks, a richly-woven story of family, forgiveness, and reinvention.
The House on Biscayne Bay
by Chanel Cleeton
As death stalks a gothic mansion in Miami, the lives of two women intertwine as the past and present collide.
The Funeral Cryer by Wenyan Lu
Debut novelist Wenyan Lu brings us this witty yet profound story about one woman's midlife reawakening in contemporary rural China.
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