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His other most recent books include \u003ci\u003eDr. No\u003c\/i\u003e (finalist for the NBCC Award for Fiction and winner of the PEN\/Jean Stein Book Award),\u003ci\u003e The Trees\u003c\/i\u003e (finalist for the Booker Prize and the PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction), \u003ci\u003eTelephone\u003c\/i\u003e (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), \u003ci\u003eSo Much Blue, Erasure,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eI Am Not Sidney Poitier.\u003c\/i\u003e He has received the NBCC Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award, The Windham Campbell Prize from Yale University, and the Stowe Prize for Literary Activism. \u003ci\u003eAmerican Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e, the feature film based on his novel \u003ci\u003eErasure\u003c\/i\u003e, was released in 2023 and was awarded the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the writer Danzy Senna, and their children.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"james-pulitzer-prize-winner","title":"James (Pulitzer Prize Winner)","description":"\u003cb\u003ePULITZER PRIZE WINNER - #1\u003ci\u003e NEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of \u003ci\u003eAdventures of Huckleberry Finn\u003c\/i\u003e, both harrowing and darkly humorous, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view - In development as a feature film to be produced by Steven Spielberg \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKIRKUS PRIZE WINNER - NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST - SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE - A Best Book of the Year: \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review, LA Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Economist, TIME, \u003c\/i\u003eand more. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Genius\"\u003ci\u003e--The Atlantic - \u003c\/i\u003e\"A masterpiece that will help redefine one of the classics of American literature, while also being a major achievement on its own.\"\u003ci\u003e--Chicago Tribune -\u003c\/i\u003e \"A provocative, enlightening literary work of art.\"\u003ci\u003e--The Boston Globe - \u003c\/i\u003e\"Everett's most thrilling novel, but also his most soulful.\"\u003ci\u003e--The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he runs away until he can formulate a plan. 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When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive, they meet expected resistance from the local sheriff, his deputy, the coroner, and a string of racist White townsfolk. The murders present a puzzle, for at each crime scene there is a second dead body: that of a man who resembles Emmett Till. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe detectives suspect that these are killings of retribution, but soon discover that eerily similar murders are taking place all over the country. Something truly strange is afoot. As the bodies pile up, the MBI detectives seek answers from a local root doctor who has been documenting every lynching in the country for years, uncovering a history that refuses to be buried. In this bold, provocative book, Everett takes direct aim at racism and police violence, and does so in a fast-paced style that ensures the reader can't look away. \u003ci\u003eThe Trees \u003c\/i\u003eis an enormously powerful novel of lasting importance from an author with his finger on America's pulse.","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53537210204526,"sku":"9781644450642","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/1007\/0382\/files\/imageloader_eaf06439-d375-47b0-9747-d0f90d14ecf0.jpg?v=1774452743"},{"product_id":"erasure","title":"Erasure","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePercival Everett's blistering satire about race and publishing, now adapted for the screen as AMERICAN FICTION, directed by Cord Jefferson and starring Jeffrey Wright and Tracee Ellis Ross\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThelonious \"Monk\" Ellison's writing career has bottomed out: his latest manuscript has been rejected by seventeen publishers, which stings all the more because his previous novels have been \"critically acclaimed.\" He seethes on the sidelines of the literary establishment as he watches the meteoric success of \u003ci\u003eWe's Lives in Da Ghetto\u003c\/i\u003e, a first novel by a woman who once visited \"some relatives in Harlem for a couple of days.\" Meanwhile, Monk struggles with real family tragedies--his aged mother is fast succumbing to Alzheimer's, and he still grapples with the reverberations of his father's suicide seven years before. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn his rage and despair, Monk dashes off a novel meant to be an indictment of Juanita Mae Jenkins's bestseller. He doesn't intend for \u003ci\u003eMy Pafology \u003c\/i\u003eto be published, let alone taken seriously, but it is--under the pseudonym Stagg R. Leigh--and soon it becomes the Next Big Thing. How Monk deals with the personal and professional fallout galvanizes this audacious, hysterical, and quietly devastating novel.","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53559203201390,"sku":"9781555975999","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/1007\/0382\/files\/imageloader_139a6f8d-4016-4398-8105-dfcdb4eb0501.jpg?v=1774634613"},{"product_id":"i-am-not-sidney-poitier","title":"I Am Not Sidney Poitier","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eI Am Not Sidney Poitier is an irresistible comic novel from the master storyteller Percival Everett, and an irreverent take on race, class, and identity in America\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eI was, in life, to be a gambler, a risk-taker, a swashbuckler, a knight. I accepted, then and there, my place in the world. I was a fighter of windmills. I was a chaser of whales. 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Maturing under the less-than watchful eye of his adopted foster father, Ted Turner, Not gets arrested in rural Georgia for driving while black, sparks a dinnertable explosion at the home of his manipulative girlfriend, and sleuths a murder case in Smut Eye, Alabama, all while navigating the recurrent communication problem: \u003ci\u003e\"What's your name?\" a kid would ask. \"Not Sidney,\" I would say. \"Okay, then what is it?\"\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53559203266926,"sku":"9781555975272","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/1007\/0382\/files\/imageloader_9b48045b-503d-4f87-b88b-54b7a4ca9696.jpg?v=1774634616"},{"product_id":"suder","title":"Suder","description":"\u003cb\u003eNow with a brilliant new package, a re-issue of the debut novel by Percival Everett, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of National Book Award winner \u003ci\u003eJames\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt's the middle of the season and the third baseman for the Seattle Mariners, Craig Suder, is in the midst of an inescapable slump. 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