American Book Awards あめりかんぶっくあわーど
Edition 17 (1996)
Winners
16 peopleA Latvian American woman damaged by war and exile traces memory and silence in order to tell her story and move toward healing.
A memoir that follows how trauma, exile, and immigration slowly become speakable.
A poetry collection that weaves together images, memory, and cultural fragments.
Henry Park, a Korean American man in New York, is forced to confront his sense of belonging and the meaning of betrayal as he grieves his young son, struggles in his marriage, and works undercover against a Korean American politician.
A debut novel about an immigrant searching for identity between language, family, loyalty, and betrayal.
A short story collection about immigrant women, marriage, family, and choice.
Marriage is not only stability but also a turning point.
A personal and sharply observed collection centered on pain and renewal.
The wound keeps sounding quietly inside the language.
An essay collection on race and responsibility that reexamines American society from within.
The contradiction lies inside the system, not outside it.
A critical book that examines the biases and errors in American history textbooks.
The history taught in school is often incomplete.
A graphic nonfiction work based on field reporting that depicts everyday life and tensions in Palestine.
A reporter's gaze records the reality on the ground.
A contribution related to Palestine, but no standalone book edition could be safely confirmed.
No standalone bibliographic record was safely verified.
An experimental poetry collection exploring love, loss, and identity.
Emotion rings more sharply inside form.
A novel that examines the tension in a relationship across cultural boundaries and the desire and violence that can grow from it.
The more they are drawn to each other, the more the invisible boundary between them deepens.
An experimental novel about Italian American memory, family history, and identity.
Personal memory keeps digging through layers of place and history.
When Robert Johnson's enchanted guitar reaches the Spokane Indian Reservation, a group of young men forms a band and the novel follows the clash of humor, grief, and cultural survival in contemporary Native life.
A blues-inflected, magical-realist novel about setback and survival on the reservation.
An anthology that explores the relationship between music and politics through multiple voices and interviews.
The sound of resistance rises not just from theory but from voices on the ground.
A historical novel set in 17th-century England, following physician Nicholas Cooke through love and political intrigue.
The tensions of court and church shake the life of one physician.
A sprawling novel in which a history professor turns inward, excavating memory, disgust, and guilt.
The act of digging a tunnel becomes an act of digging into the self.