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Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction あんどりゅー・かーねぎー せいじんむけ ふぃくしょん および のんふぃくしょん ゆうしゅうしょう

Edition 8 (2019, held 2 times in year)

Adult FictionAdult NonfictionLibrary-related Literary AwardUnited States

Winners

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Kiese Laymon きーぜ・れいもん Winner

A frank memoir that uses the weight of the body, secrecy, addiction, and family ties to examine the pressures of living as a Black man. Personal pain opens outward into larger social structures.

A memoir that reads social gravity through the memory carried in one body.

256 pages
memoirBlack experiencefamilythe bodyaddictionsocial critique