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About the 7th Annual Book Prize Winner

July 20, 2020 By

Devi S. Laskar

The Atlas of Reds and Blues grapples with the complexities of second-generation American life. Inspired by the author’s own terrifying experience of a mistaken police raid on her home, Devi S. Laskar’s debut novel explores, in spare and powerful prose, the ways in which racism permeates and pollutes the American dream. As the protagonist, known only as Mother, lies bleeding from a police gunshot wound in her Atlanta driveway, she revisits, in a time-bending mind-flash, her life as the successful child of immigrants from India, wife of a successful white businessman, and mother of three daughters.

Laskar is a native of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and holds an MFA from Columbia University. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and is an alumna of The OpEd Project and VONA. The Atlas of Reds and Blues is her first novel. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Author website www.devislaskar.com

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The 2020 Book Prize Winner

Atlas of Reds and Blues

by Devi S. Laskar
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2020 Announcement Party

Announcement party January 6, 2020

Winner Devi Laskar with Crook’s Corner restaurant owners Shannon Healy and Gary Crunkleton on either side

left to right, Judge Charles Frazier, author Daniel Wallace, author (our first Crook’s Corner Book Prize winner in 2014) Wiley Cash

The 7th Annual Longlist

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