Mar 17 2017
The winners of the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Awards were announced last night:
Fiction: LaRose by Louise Erdrich
Nonfiction: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
Poetry: House of Lords and Commons by Ishion Hutchinson
Biography: Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin
Autobiography: Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
Criticism: White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
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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