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18. LaRose a finalist for PEN Award

Thu Mar 9, 2017, 02:57 PM

Mar 2017

The finalists for the prestigious PEN/Faulkner literary award were announced this morning. Minneapolis writer Louise Erdrich's novel, "LaRose," is among the finalists.

Four of the five finalists are people of color, and two of the five are immigrants to the United States. The judges said, in a press statement, "Taken together, the five finalists represent something worth reiterating today: that American fiction cannot be defined or contained by any particular border, wall or edit."

http://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-writer-louise-erdrich-finalist-for-prestigious-15-000-pen-faulkner-award/415576024/

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What are you reading this week of March 5, 2017? [View all] hermetic Mar 2017 OP

I am reading an epic novel the Journeyer by Gary Jennings kimbutgar Mar 2017 #1

Handmaids Tale hermetic Mar 2017 #4

I finished "Telempath" and am 1/3 through his "Stardance" TexasProgresive Mar 2017 #2

Totally understand hermetic Mar 2017 #6

Working on Farthing by Jo Walton. PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2017 #3

You sound like me hermetic Mar 2017 #7

I used to buy vastly more books than I currently do. PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2017 #9

Beneath The Rock by Tommy Birk Chipper Chat Mar 2017 #5

So, non-fiction then? hermetic Mar 2017 #8

Just looked that one up hermetic Mar 2017 #11

It is his first book. He is from Indiana Chipper Chat Mar 2017 #13

Bloomington, IN was a cool town hermetic Mar 2017 #14

It has changed a lot since those days (for the better). Chipper Chat Mar 2017 #15

Beyond the Truth by Anne Holt shenmue Mar 2017 #10

A couple of Holt's hermetic Mar 2017 #12

FINALLY finished Louise Erdrich's book, LaRose and I discovered why it took me so long to read japple Mar 2017 #16

There you are! hermetic Mar 2017 #17

LaRose a finalist for PEN Award hermetic Mar 2017 #18

Happy to read this, and the press statement by the judges is perfect! japple Mar 2017 #19