NEW YORK (AP) — Three books that discover and rejoice the variety of American tradition have been awarded Kirkus Prizes on Wednesday evening, with every winner receiving $50,000.
James McBride’s “The Heaven & Earth Grocery Retailer,” a novel set in an eclectic Pennsylvania city within the Thirties, received within the fiction class.
Héctor Tobar’s “Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of ‘Latino’” obtained the nonfiction award, and Ariel Aberg-Riger’s ”America Redux: Visible Tales From Our Dynamic Historical past” received for younger reader’s literature.
The awards have been offered by the commerce publication Kirkus Critiques.
“Historical past and neighborhood emerged as central themes in essentially the most excellent works of literature printed this yr,” Meg Kuehn, writer of Kirkus Critiques, mentioned in an announcement.
“We see these concepts come to life in wildly alternative ways in all three of this yr’s winners, each compelling from starting to finish, begging to be celebrated, mentioned, and shared.”
Earlier winners of the Kirkus Prize, established in 2014, embrace Hanya Yanagihara’s “A Little Life,” Jason Reynolds’ “As Courageous as You” and Susan Faludi’s “Within the Darkroom.”
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