Prize Readers discussion

The Non-Fiction Shortlist can be found here: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/prize/2...

American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment by Shane Bauer
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth Macy
Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth by Sarah Smarsh
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America by Timothy Snyder
Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises by Rebecca Solnit

A friend just finished Heavy: An American Memoir and it will be one of her top reads for the year - so I hope to get to it next week.

I have been listening to Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America - confirms information most of us probably know at this time and at times is getting a little repetitive for me.

Beverly wrote: "A friend just finished Heavy: An American Memoir and it will be one of her top reads for the year - so I hope to get to it next week.

I have been listening to...

Beverly, I haven't read Heavy yet, but I have read these by Kiese Laymon

Long Division

How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America

And he is just absolutely the most underrated living author I can think of. How to Kill Yourself should be flying off the shelves, but it came out a few years before the general public was ready for it IMO. Long Division is complex and sprawling despite being a slim little thing and I've got plans to re-read it sometime in the next year or so.

The 2018 KirKus Prize for Nonfiction winner is Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises.

https://mailchi.mp/ce214fc6ad89/2018-...

Beverly wrote: "The 2018 KirKus Prize for Nonfiction winner is Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises.

https://mailchi.mp/ce214fc6ad89/2018-..."

Thanks for the update Beverly!