Black Coffee discussion

The Center for Fiction has announced the shortlist for its annual $10,000 First Novel Prize:

The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter by Kia Corthron (Seven Stories Press)
The Girls by Emma Cline (Random House)
Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn (Liveright)
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (Knopf)
How I Became a North Korean by Krys Lee (Viking)
We Love You, Charlie Freeman by Kaitlyn Greenidge (Algonquin Books)
What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

Thanks for posting Beverly! I did read 2 on the list

I've read 1 and have 1 on hold. Gyasi deserves it imho.

Have you guys read any of the above, except HOMEGOING, of course?

Trudy wrote: "Have you guys read any of the above, except HOMEGOING, of course?"

I have also read:
Here Comes the Sun
We Love You, Charlie Freeman

Both were strong 4.5 reads for me.

I also have started The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter: A Novel and was enjoying but was not in the mood for a BAB (big azz book) so I put it aside to pick up at a later date. It is 800p.

Beverly wrote: "Trudy wrote: "Have you guys read any of the above, except HOMEGOING, of course?"

I have also read:
Here Comes the Sun
We Love You, Charlie Freeman

Both were strong..."

Thanks, Beverly. I love the BAB category! LOL