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Of the ten authors this year, only Lauren Groff won the Fates and Furies award for her 2015 novel. This year she was selected for her story book. "Florida", which evokes a sense of human fragility through encounters with the natural phenomena of the state. Katy Waldman writes that "Groff's short fiction projects psychology outwardly, exteriorizing fear, pleasure and innocence in wildcats, jasmine and swans." Four of the stories from the Midnight Zone collection "and "Ghosts and Empties" – were originally published in this magazine.
Groff is not the only competitor to tackle Florida psychology. Jennifer Clement's "Gun Love" follows a teenage girl who grew up in central Florida and was published only three weeks after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. In her review of the book, Katy Waldman wrote that the novel "follows a group of characters who can not help but be seduced by the power of firearms, even as bullets open their lives again and again. ".
The complete list is below.
Jamel Brinkley, "A lucky man"
Graywolf Press
Jennifer Clement, "Gun Love"
Hogarth / Penguin Random House
Lauren Groff, "Florida"
Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House
Daniel Gumbiner, "The boat builder"
McSweeney & # 39; s
Brandon Hobson, "Where the dead speak to each other"
Soho Press
Tayari Jones"An American wedding"
Algonquin Books / Workman Publishing
Rebecca Makkai"Great believers"
Viking Books / Penguin Random House
Sigrid Nunez, "The friend"
Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House
Tommy Orange, "There, there"
Alfred A. Knopf / Penguin Random House
Nafissa Thompson-Spiers, "The heads of people of color"
Atria Books / 37 INK / Simon & Schuster
The judges in the category this year are Laila Lalami, whose last book, "The Moor's Account", was both a Man Booker and Pulitzer Prize nominee; Chris Bachelder, whose latest book, "The Throwback Special", was a finalist of the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction; Min Jin Lee, whose novel "Pachinko" was a finalist of the 2017 National Book Award for Fiction; Laurie Muchnick, the fiction editor at Kirkus Reviews; and Chinelo Okparanta, whose last book is "Under the Udala Trees", which was a finalist of the Dublin International Prize for Literature.
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