Mar 15 2018
The National Book Critics Circle announced the winners of its 2017 awards tonight:
Poetry:
Layli Long Soldier, Whereas (Graywolf)
Criticism:
Carina Chocano, You Play The Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Trainwrecks, & Other Mixed Messages (Mariner)
Autobiography:
Xiaolu Guo, Nine Continents: A Memoir In and Out of China (Grove)
Biography:
Caroline Fraser, Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder (Metropolitan Books)
Nonfiction:
Frances FitzGerald, The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America (Simon & Schuster)
Fiction:
Joan Silber, Improvement (Counterpoint)
The John Leonard Prize:
Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties (Graywolf)
The Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing:
Charles Finch
The Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award:
John McPhee
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 Stone Home
by Crystal Hana Kim
A moving family drama and coming-of-age story revealing a dark corner of South Korean history.
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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