The Center for Fiction announced the shortlist for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, whose winner will be named at an awards dinner on December 11:
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra (Hogarth) Eleven Days by Lea Carpenter (Alfred A. Knopf) Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi (The Penguin Press) The Morels by Christopher Hacker (Soho Press) Motherlunge by Kirstin Scott (New Issues Poetry & Prose) The Residue Years by Mitchell Jackson (Bloomsbury) Wash by Margaret Wrinkle (Atlantic Monthly Press) Y by Marjorie Celona (Free Press/Simon & Schuster)
BTW - Mitchell Jackson is a black writer. Also Wash touches on the subject of slave breeding.
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra (Hogarth)
Eleven Days by Lea Carpenter (Alfred A. Knopf)
Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi (The Penguin Press)
The Morels by Christopher Hacker (Soho Press)
Motherlunge by Kirstin Scott (New Issues Poetry & Prose)
The Residue Years by Mitchell Jackson (Bloomsbury)
Wash by Margaret Wrinkle (Atlantic Monthly Press)
Y by Marjorie Celona (Free Press/Simon & Schuster)
BTW - Mitchell Jackson is a black writer.
Also Wash touches on the subject of slave breeding.