The National Book Critics Circle - a member of which I am not, for reasons unclear to me but probably 
involve my own personal laziness - posted one of those "Top Books of the Year" lists, and Miami's Edwidge Danticat wins the top spot for nonfiction for her memoir Brother, I'm Dying.
Top fiction, in order: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz; National Book Award winner Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson; The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon; Exit Ghost by Philip Roth; Out Stealing Horses, Per Petterson. Guess no women wrote anything worthy of a top spot this year.
Nonfiction's another story, though. We have Edwidge at No. 1, followed by The World Without Us by Alan Weisman; The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein; Schulz and Peanuts by David Michaelis; and National Book Award winner Legacy of Ashes by Tim Weiner.
Bro, you're a member of the Florida Film Critics Circle. How could you possibly want for more?
Posted by: Phoebe Flowers | November 30, 2007 at 12:39 AM
I would like the email address to contact Edwidge Danticat. My children's dad was deported to Trinidad many years ago and I would like to tell her about the long term effects deportation has on American born children who lose their parent as a result of the past administrations' deportation laws.
Posted by: ritanelson | January 23, 2009 at 03:43 AM