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July 31
2016 Scotiabank Giller PrIZE

We Love You, Charlie Freeman: A Novel

Kaitlyn Greenidge
Pages: 341
Format: Book

The Freeman family--Charles, Laurel, and their daughters, teenage Charlotte and nine-year-old Callie--have been invited to the Toneybee Institute to participate in a research experiment. They will live in an apartment on campus with Charlie, a young chimp abandoned by his mother. The Freemans...

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June 26
2017 Whiting Award for Fiction

Do Not Say We Have Nothing: A Novel

Madeleine Thien · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 480
Format: Book

 

Master storyteller Madeleine Thien takes us inside an extended family in China, showing us the lives of two successive generations -- those who lived through Mao's Cultural Revolution and their children, who became the students protesting in Tiananmen Square. At the center...

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August 28
2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

The Underground Railroad

Colson Whitehead
Pages: 306
Format: Book

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the #1 New York Times bestseller from Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South

Cora is a slave...

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