[OPLINLIST] 2021 Dayton Literary Peace Prize Finalists Announced

[Gregor, Paul]

Recognizing the power of literature to promote peace and reconciliation, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation today announced the finalists for the 2021 Dayton Literary Peace Prize in fiction and nonfiction. Inspired by the 1995 Dayton Peace Accords that ended the war in Bosnia, The Dayton Literary Peace Prize is the only international literary peace prize awarded in the United States.
The 2021 Dayton Literary Peace Prize fiction finalists are:
Deacon King Kong<http://www.jamesmcbride.com/deacon-king-kong/> by James McBride (Riverhead): A funny, moving tale about the shooting of a drug dealer by a church deacon in 1960's South Brooklyn. Explores the lives of everyone affected by the event, demonstrating that love and faith live in all of us.
Shuggie Bain<https://www.douglasdstuart.com/books> by Douglas Stewart (Grove Press): Winner of the 2020 Booker Prize, the unforgettable story of a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980's childhood in the rundown public housing of Glasgow, Scotland.
The Mountains Sing<https://www.workman.com/products/the-mountains-sing> by Nguyen Phan Que Mai (Algonquin): Against the backdrop of the Viet Nam War, an enveloping tale of the Tran family as seen through the eyes of the matriarch, Tran Dieu Lan, and her granddaughter Huong.
The Night Watchman<https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-night-watchman-louise-erdrich> by Louise Erdrich (Harper Collins): Tells the story of Thomas, a Chippewa night watchman at a rural plant in 1950's North Carolina, and Patrice, a worker at the plant who journeys to find her runaway sister.
Valentine<https://www.harpercollins.com/products/valentine-elizabeth-wetmore> by Elizabeth Wetmore (Harper Collins):  A small town in 1970's Texas becomes bitterly divided after fourteen year old Gloria Ramirez survives an attack by a roughneck. An exploration of the intersections of violence, race, class, and religion.
We Germans<https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/alexander-starritt/we-germans/9780316429795/> by Alexander Starritt (Little, Brown): Decades after WWII, a former German soldier pens a letter to his grandson reckoning with the impossible decisions he faced as a soldier and prisoner, as well as his guilt as a Nazi participator.

The 2021 Dayton Literary Peace Prize non-fiction finalists are:
Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land <http://www.randomhousebooks.com/books/608247/>  by Toni Jenson (Ballantine): A powerful, poetic memoir about what it means to exist as an Indigenous woman in America.
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents<http://www.randomhousebooks.com/books/653196/> by Isabel Wilkerson (Random House): Through deeply researched history and a multilayered narrative, Wilkerson demonstrates how America has been shaped by an unspoken system of human ranking.
See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love<https://valariekaur.com/see-no-stranger/> by Valerie Kaur (One World): The renowned Sikh activist, filmmaker, and civil rights lawyer describes revolutionary love as the call of our time, a radical, joyful practice that might be our best chance for the future.
The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir<https://micheleharper.com/the-beauty-in-breaking/> by Michelle Harper (Riverhead Books): A female African American emergency room physician in a profession that is overwhelmingly male and white passes along necessary lessons that she learned as a daughter, a woman and a physician.
The Road from Raqqa: A Story of Brotherhood, Borders, and Belonging<https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/573048/the-road-from-raqqa-by-jordan-ritter-conn/> by Jordan Ritter (Ballantine): The harrowing story of the road to reunion for two Syrian brothers despite a homeland at war and an ocean between them.
When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remained<https://www.ariananeumann.com/when-time-stopped> by Ariana Neumann (Scribner): Ariana Neumann's father was one of the few members of his family to survive the Holocaust. Neumann dives into the secrets of his past, creating an epic family memoir.

For more information please see: https://www.daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/2021-awards/
Posted on behalf of Helen Prichard and the Library Committee of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.
Paul Gregor
Head Librarian
Jamestown Community Library
Crosspostings: publib, libref-l, Oplin list, fiction-l
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