PEN America announced the finalists for their Literary Awards across eleven categories. Up for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award ($75,000):
The President and The Frog, Carolina De Robertis (Knopf)
The Trees, Percival Everett (Graywolf Press)
The Kissing Bug, Daisy Hernández (Tin House Books)
Milk Blood Heat, Dantiel W. Moniz (Grove Press)
Harrow, Joy Williams (Knopf)
The finalists for the PEN/Hemingway Award For Debut Novel:
Burnt Sugar, Avni Doshi (The Overlook Press)
Dear Miss Metropolitan, Carolyn Ferrell (Henry Holt)
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers (Harper)
Detransition, Baby, Torrey Peters (One World)
The Five Wounds, Kirstin Valdez Quade (Norton)
Full list of finalists here.
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