Brookline’s Edith Pearlman nominated for National Book Award in fiction
The longlist of fiction nominees came out Thursday.
Brookline residentEdith Pearlman made the longlist for the National Book Award in fiction with her collection of short stories, Honeydew.
The Rhode Island-born author has written more than 250 works of short fiction and non-fiction. She received the Boston Authors Club Annual Award in 2012 for Binocular Vision, a collection of stories that also made her a finalist for the National Book Award.
Angela Flournoy also received a nomination for her debut novel, The Turner House. Flournoy will be joining the Southern New Hampshire University MFA program as a faculty member in 2016.
The 10 nominated works will be pared down to a shortlist released in October. The final award winner will be announced November 18 in New York.
The full list of nominated fiction is below:
A Cure for Suicide by Jesse Ball
Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg
Refund by Karen E. Bender
The Turner House by Angela Flournoy
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
Fortune Smiles by Adam Johnson
Welcome to Braggsville by T. Geronimo Johnson
Honeydew by Edith Pearlman
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Mislaid by Nell Zink
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