American Book Awards あめりかんぶっくあわーど
Edition 37 (2016)
Winners
16 peopleA poetry collection that traces Shawnee history alongside personal memory, linking land, displacement, and inheritance.
A short-story collection set in the Palestinian village of Tel al-Hilou, spanning generations and continents to explore memory and belonging.
A nonfiction study of how South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh immigrants have shaped the United States while facing prejudice and exclusion after 9/11.
A satirical novel about a biracial man who returns to Philadelphia, confronts family secrets and ghosts, and tries to remake his life.
An experimental short-story collection that retrieves voices from the margins of history and memory.
A study of how the FBI monitored, read, and politically framed African American literature.
An essayistic memoir that follows the relationship between memory, history, race, and the American landscape.
A sweeping history of how the slave-breeding industry shaped the United States and its economy.
A sweeping history of how the slave-breeding industry shaped the United States and its economy.
A linked short-story collection set in Arroyo Grande, Texas, where uncanny events and community life keep colliding.
An investigative nonfiction account of the expansion of U.S. proxy wars and covert operations across Africa.
A collected volume of Ray Young Bear's poetry, grounded in Meskwaki tradition, nature, violence, and memory.