Southern Fried Fiction

Chapel Hill Public Library, working in partnership with the Crooks Corner Book Prize Foundation, is setting the table for a book chat with the debut novelist whose work has been honored with this year’s Prize. The 2020 prize-winner is Chapel Hill native Devi S Laskar!. Come here her in conversation with Daniel Wallace, author of Big Fish and Professor of English at UNC-Chapel Hill.

This year’s shortlist of nominated books were judged by National Book Award-winning novelist Charles Frazier, author ofCold Mountain. They include:

The Atlas of Reds and Blues by Devi S. Laskar

Sugar Land by Tammy Lynne Stoner (a Chapel Hill Native)

Lot: Stories by Bryan Washington

About the Prize

The seventh annual Crook’s Corner Book Prize honors a debut novel set in the American South. The winner receives $5,000 and a free glass of wine at Crook’s Corner every day for a year. Flyleaf Books will have copies of prize winning books available for purchase at the book chat.

Past winners include: