Mar 05 2015
Elizabeth McCracken has won The Story Prize for her collection Thunderstruck. The prize is worth $20,000
The other finalists for The Story Prize for books published in 2014 were authors Francesca Marciano for The Other Language (Pantheon) and Lorrie Moore for Bark (Alfred A. Knopf). The $20,000 award is the largest first-prize amount of any annual U.S. book award exclusively for fiction. As runners-up, Marciano and Moore each received $5,000.
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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