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The National Book Award fiction finalist centers around Sneha, a recent college graduate from India who's making her way in Milwaukee in 2013.

In “South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation,” Imani Perry travels to the American South, where she is from, to examine race, culture, politics and identity. The awards night was one of celebration, but concerns about a wave of book challenges and bans across the country hung over the festivities.

A sweeping novel set in a low-income housing community in Indiana, Tess Gunty’s “The Rabbit Hutch” has won the National Book Award for fiction. On Wednesday night, the nonfiction prize

Gunty was among three writers nominated for their first published books.

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A look at this year’s best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature, and young people’s literature.

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This year’s longlist includes eight fiction débuts.

NEW YORK (AP) — Novelist Gayl Jones is a fiction nominee for the National Book Award, the rare established name on a list of 10 that features eight debut works of fiction.

NEW YORK (AP) — Novelist Gayl Jones is a fiction nominee for the National Book Award, the rare established name on a list of 10 that features eight debut works of fiction.