Tayari Jones novel Kin wins the Kirkus Prize for fiction, earning a $50,000 award
NEW YORK (AP) — Tayari Jones' “Kin,” a novel tracing the life and times of two Black friends from small-town Louisiana, has won the Kirkus Prize for fiction. Paula Colloff's “Catch the Devil: A True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coast" won for nonfiction, and Elizabeth Acevedo's “Anger Is Only a Shadow” was awarded for young readers' literature. Each of the three authors receives a $50,000 cash prize. Colson Whitehead's “Cool Machine,” Douglas Stuart's...
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