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Kirkus Prize: Fiction 2018

25 October 2018

Severance - Ling Ma

Kirkus Prize: Fiction 2018, awarded by Kirkus Reviews

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Also from Kirkus Reviews in 2018: Nonfiction

Winner

Severance

Ling Ma

Finalists

Halsey Street

Naima Coster
Florida

Lauren Groff
Mourning

Eduardo Halfon
Heads of the Colored People

Nafissa Thompson-Spires
Tell the Machine Goodnight

Katie Williams

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