2016-12-01
Last night, the National Book Critics Circle announced the finalists for the John Leonard prize, their award for first books. Here they are, linked to their Booklist reviews:
The Girls, by Emma Cline
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers, by Max Porter
Here Comes the Sun, by Nicole Dennis-Benn
Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi
The Nix, by Nathan Hill
The Mothers, by Britt Bennett