Awards

The Center for Fiction announced the nominees for their annual First Novel Prize, to be presented on December 6:

The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter, by Kia Corthron (Seven Stories Press)
The Girls, by Emma Cline (Random House)
Here Comes the Sun, by Nicole Dennis-Benn (Liveright)
Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi (Knopf)
How I Became a North Korean, by Krys Lee (Viking)
We Love You, Charlie Freeman, by Kaitlyn Greenidge (Algonquin)
What Belongs to You, by Garth Greenwell (FSG)

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