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5th Annual Crook’s Corner Book Prize Longlist Announced

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July 16, 2017

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The Crook’s Corner Book Prize Foundation announces its annual Longlist for best debut novels set in the American South. The $5000 prize will be presented in January 2018. The Longlist, selected from 42 entries, is:


Home Field
by Hannah Gersen
(William Morrow Paperbacks)
 Rabbit Cake by Annie Hartnett Book Cover, Crook's Corner Long List
Rabbit Cake
by Annie Hartnett
(Tin House Books)
Love Give Us One Death: Bonnie & Clyde in the Last Days, by Jeff P. Jones
Love Give Us One Death: Bonnie & Clyde in the Last Days
by Jeff P. Jones
(Texas Review Press)
Miracles of Marie Antoinette - Knipper - Book Cover, Crook's Corner Long List
The Peculiar Miracles of Antoinette Martin
by Stephanie Knipper
(Algonquin Books)
Barrowfields, Phillip Lewis, Book Cover, Crook's Corner Long List
The Barrowfields
by Phillip Lewis
(Hogarth)
Nicholas Manieri, The Infinite, Book Cover, Crook's Corner Long List
The Infinite
by Nicholas Mainieri
(HarperCollins)

One Good Mama Bone, Bren McClain, Book Cover, Crook's Corner Long List
One Good Mama Bone
by Bren McClain
(Story River Books/University of South Carolina Press)

Thomas Jefferson's Dreams of Sally Hemings, Book Cover, Crook's Corner Long List, Stephen O'Connor
Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings
by Stephen O’Connor
(Viking)

Work Like Any Other, Virginia Reeves, Book Cover, Crook's Corner Long List
Work Like Any Other
by Virginia Reeves
(Scribner)
The Second Mrs. Hockaday, Susan Rivers, Book Cover, Crook's Corner Long List
The Second Mrs. Hockaday
by Susan Rivers
(Algonquin Books)

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