American Book Awards あめりかんぶっくあわーど
Edition 23 (2002)
Winners
14 peopleA poetry collection by Aaron A. Abeyta that weaves family, land, and bilingual rhythm into memories of southern Colorado.
Family memory and the feeling of place rise through the rhythms of English and Spanish.
An environmental memoir that traces the impact of pollution on the body and memory, linking personal experience to place and health.
It reexamines the injuries of environmental harm through both personal and social history.
A novel set against the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, following two families whose lives are reshaped by historical violence.
In the shadow of oil-boom prosperity and fear, ordinary life can break in a single night.
The second novel in the African Immortals sequence, expanding a story of inherited power, family, and supernatural tension.
A story of blood and inheritance pushes family choices and dangerous power further into view.
A poetry collection shaped by letters to a deceased father, turning loss and family memory into an intimate, searching voice.
It speaks to an absent family while searching for a place to belong inside memory.
Dana Gioia’s poetry collection explores prayer, labor, and everyday tension through a restrained yet expansive voice.
In daylight, the poems move back and forth between reflection and feeling.
A novel that links Choctaw history and a modern crime through a circular sense of time, family memory, and community power.
Distant past and present overlap as one family story.
A short-story collection by Alex Kuo that captures the shifting experience of diaspora through movement, city life, and memory.
Each story shifts the texture of place and the outline of the self.
A study of nonviolence that examines history, politics, and civic action while asking how societies can choose another path.
It reframes peace as practice rather than abstraction.
A critical essay collection tracing the history and expressive power of newspaper comics within American popular culture.
Through characters like Dick Tracy and Popeye, the depth of comic-strip expression comes into view.
Al Young’s poetry collection layers memory, music, and urban life into a record of thought and feeling across the 1990s.
A sequence of short poems gathers the lingering space between dream and daily life.
A read-aloud title by Jessel Miller that brings the landscapes of the vineyard valley to life through a gentle, child-friendly voice.
Hand-drawn warmth and a gentle narrative settle over the vineyard landscape.