The Kirkus Prize announced finalists in fiction, nonfiction, and children’s literature, with the winners to be announced on October 24: Fiction Cantoras, by Carolina De Robertis (Knopf) The Other Americans, by Laila Lalami (Pantheon) Lost Children Archive, by Valeria Luiselli (Knopf) Territory of Light, by Yuko Tsushima, translated by Geraldine Harcourt (FSG) On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong (Penguin Press) The Nickel Boys, by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday) Nonfiction Go Ahead in the Rain, by Hanif Abdurraqib (Univ. of Texas) When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back, by Naja Marie Aidt, translated by Denise Newman (Coffee House) How We Fight for Our Lives, by Saeed Jones (Simon & […]
