[OPLINLIST] 2022 Winners of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize announced

[Gregor, Paul]

Fiction Winner and Runner-up:
The Love Songs of W.E.B Du Bois<https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-love-songs-of-web-du-bois-honoree-fanonne-jeffers?variant=39813771132962> by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers (HarperCollins): This intimate yet sweeping novel, with all the luminescence and force of Homegoing; Sing, Unburied, and The Water Dancer, chronicles the journey of one American family from the centuries of the colonial slave trade through the Civil War to our own tumultuous era.
What Comes After<https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/611515/what-comes-after-by-joanne-tompkins/> by JoAnne Tompkins (Penguin Random House): offers an unforgettable story of loss and anger, but also of kindness and hope, courage and forgiveness. It is a deeply moving account of strangers and friends not only helping each other forward after tragedy, but inspiring a new kind of family.

Nonfiction Winner and Runner-up:
How the Word is Passed<https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/clint-smith/how-the-word-is-passed/9780316492935/> by Clint Smith (Little, Brown):   This compelling #1 New York Times bestseller examines the legacy of slavery in America-and how both history and memory continue to shape our everyday lives.
Invisible Child<https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/241846/invisible-child-by-andrea-elliott/> by Andrea Elliott (Penguin Random House) winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize, this is the unforgettable story of Dasani Coates, a homeless girl whose indomitable spirit is tested by poverty and racism in an unequal America.

For more information please visit: https://www.daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/
Posted on behalf of Helen Prichard and the Library Committee of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.
Crosspostings to: publib, Oplin list, fiction-l

Paul Gregor
Head Librarian
Jamestown Community Library
Jamestown, Ohio 45335
(937) 736-7910

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