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Salvage the Bones Wins the 2011 National Book Award in Fiction!
Major congratulations are due to Jesmyn Ward, author of the 2011 National Book Award in Fiction winner: SALVAGE THE BONES.
Ward's gritty yet tender novel about family and poverty in the days leading up to Hurricane Katrina is both beautiful and brutal. Pregnant fourteen-year-old Esch, her brothers, and their mostly absent father are preparing for the storm, but are unprepared for the aftermath.
When she accepted the award, Ward said,
"I understood that I wanted to write about the experiences of the poor, and the black and the rural people of the South, so that the culture that marginalized us for so long would see that our stories were as universal, our lives as fraught and lovely and important, as theirs."
You can re-watch the full National Book Award ceremony hosted by John Lithgow at NationalBook.org.
Read moreThe National Book Award Finalists!
We interrupt our regularly scheduled blogging to bring you the National Book Award-finalists from Macmillan!
Fiction:
SALVAGE THE BONES by Jesmyn Ward (Bloomsbury USA)
Nonfiction:
THE CONVERT by Deborah Baker (Graywolf Press)
Poetry:
THE CHAMELEON COUCH by Yusef Komunyakaa (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
DOUBLE SHADOW by Carl Phillips (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
See the full list of NBA-nominees at Publishers Weekly.
Read moreOur National Book Award Finalist
The National Book Award nominations were just announced, and one of our titles, Secret Historian, was nominated!
Drawn from the secret, never-before-seen diaries, journals, and sexual records of the novelist, poet, and university professor Samuel M. Steward, Secret Historian is a sensational reconstruction of one of the more extraordinary hidden lives of the twentieth century.
"Spring’s sympathetic and entertaining story of a life registers the limitations imposed on homosexuals by a repressive society, but also celebrates the creativity and daring with which Steward tested them." --Publishers Weekly
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