Fiction Finalists:
Dark at the Crossing by Elliot Ackerman
A modern-day love story set on the Turkish border of Syria, where an Arab American with a conflicted past attempts to join the fight against Bashar al-Assad's regime before the plight of his host family reshapes his loyalties.
The Leavers by Lisa Ko
One morning, eleven-year old Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant goes to her job and never comes home. Deming is eventually adopted by two white college professors who move him from the Bronx to a small town. This is a moving story of a boy who struggles to find his way in a new world. It's an unflinching look at the difficult decisions a mother faces. This novel explores what it means to be a family and the duality of lives, especially through adoption. Jennifer Ohzourk for LibraryReads.
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
In early 1900's Korea, cherished daughter Sunja finds herself pregnant and alone, bringing shame on her family until a young minister offers to marry her and move with her to Japan, in the saga of one family bound together as their faith and identity are called into question.
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado
A wife refuses her husband's requests to remove the green ribbon from around her neck. A woman narrates her sexual encounters as a plague slowly devours humanity. A salesclerk in a mall makes a shocking discovery within the seams of the store's prom dresses. One woman's surgery-induced weight loss results in an unwanted house guest. And in the brilliant novella, "Especially Heinous," the author re-imagines every episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, a show we simply assumed had shown it all.
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Living with his grandparents and toddler sister on a Gulf Coast farm, Jojo traverses the challenges of his anguished mother's addictions and his grandmother's terminal cancer before the release of his father from prison prompts a road trip of danger and hope.
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