A novel that uses one Dominican-American family’s history and Oscar’s tragicomic life to explore dictatorship, migration trauma, and identity.

Oscar’s love life and family history move back and forth between the Dominican Republic and the United States.

An allegorical monologue about alienation and self-redefinition after 9/11, told through a Pakistani man who once seemed to have everything to lose.

A story of success slowly becomes a story about belonging.

An autobiographical nonfiction work about religious background, leaving faith, oppression as a woman, and the costs of exile.

Flight and reinvention trace the outline of a woman’s freedom.

A special award recognizing William Melvin Kelley’s career, especially the body of work that redefined racial and regional imagination in American fiction.

The honor reaches beyond a single novel to recognize the writer’s whole career.