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Published in March 2024, James also won the Kirkus Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award, and was a finalist for the Booker Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

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The Pulitzer citation called James an “accomplished reconsideration” that illustrates “the absurdity of racial supremacy and ...

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