Here are the longlist nominees for the 2022 National Book Awards
by Boris Kachka and Dorany Pineda, Los Angeles Times
Sep 16, 2022
3 minutes
It’s a good year to be a newcomer, at least if you dream of a National Book Award. Eight of the 10 nominees on the annual prizes’ fiction longlist, announced Friday by the National Book Foundation, are debut fiction authors. Their narratives include the making of an artist from a struggling Florida immigrant family, an epic of ecstatic visions revolving around a failed Midwestern industrial town, a queer Latino professor’s conflicted return to suburban Long Island and women
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