Finalist for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction This evocative memoir of food and family history is "somehow both mouthwatering and heartbreaking... and] a potent personal history" (Shelf Awareness). Grace M. Cho grew up as the daughter of a white American merchant...
The 2021 National Book Award finalists were announced last week. This prestigious annual literary award includes five different categories—fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature, and young people’s literature—with five finalists for each. Read on for the twenty-five books that made the cut.