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2019 National Book Award Finalists: Nonfiction
The winning memoir, plus the other top contenders for the prestigious award.
Published on November 21, 2019
The Yellow House: A Memoir (2019 National Book Award Winner)
Sarah M. BroomSarah M. Broom won the 2019 National Book Award for Nonfiction for her touching memoir, “The Yellow House,” which chronicles how her family rode out Hurricane Katrina and generations of social injustices. Judges praise how Broom “uses reportage, oral history, and astute political analysis to seep into the generational crevices, while reveling and revealing the choppy inheritances rooted in one family in the neighborhood of New Orleans East.”
Thick: And Other Essays
Tressie McMillan CottomFans of Roxane Gay and Ta-Nehisi Coates have a lot to love in Tressie McMillan Cottom’s sharp collection of essays. McMillian explores the challenges of being black and a woman in America, takes on the meaning of beauty, and more. Witty, provocative, and wise.