![]() There were two winners in general nonfiction. Caleb McDaniel (Oxford University Press), which the judges called "a masterfully researched meditation on reparations based on the remarkable story of a 19th century woman who survived kidnapping and re-enslavement to sue her captor." Finalists in the category were Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (University of North Carolina Press) and The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America by Greg Grandin (Metropolitan Books). The history winner is Sweet Ta ste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America by W. The fiction prize went to The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday), which the judges called a "spare and devastating exploration of abuse at a reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida that is ultimately a powerful tale of human perseverance, dignity and redemption." Finalists in the category were The Dutch House by Ann Patchett (Harper) and The Topeka School by Ben Lerner (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). ![]()
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