” a mystery set into motion by the hit-and-run death of a Moroccan American restaurant owner in the Mojave.
The longlist, selected from 397 submissions, includes five debut novels, including Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s “Fleishman Is in Trouble,” which looks at Toby, a New York hepatologist bitter about his divorce despite the pleasures of online dating. In poet Ocean Vuong’s the twentysomething son of a Vietnamese immigrant mother writes a letter to her, telling his view of family history, war and violence, his sexuality and other experiences growing up in Hartford, Conn.,” the disappearance of three young women in a remote Russian city, Petropavlovsk, examines the role of violence in women’s lives.
The foundation will announce finalists Oct. 8 and winners at the private National Book Awards ceremony and benefit dinner Nov. 20 in New York City.
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