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PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction ぺん/ふぉーくなーしょう(ふぃくしょんぶもん)

Edition 36 (2016)

FictionNovelAmerican Literature Award

Winners

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James Hannaham じぇーむず はなはむ Winner

A novel set against a prison-like farm and a collapsing family, tracing how exploitation and violence erode personal dignity. Multiple narrators intersect in a story that combines pain with an unsettling, dark wit.

A harrowing, unsettling novel about exploitation and family breakdown.

384 pages
prisonexploitationfamilyviolencesocial critique