According to the LA Times, four of the five finalists in fiction are women. They are by Julie Otsuka (The Buddha in the Attic), Edith Pearlman (Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories), Jesmyn Ward (Salvage the Bones), and Tea Obreht, whose debut novel The Tiger’s Wife made a big splash earlier this year. Ladies also dominated the nonfiction category — three out of five finalists were female. One is the awesome Lauren Redniss, whose beautiful Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout we wrote about last year. Congratulations, ladies!
National Book Award Finalists Announced — With An Extra Title [LA Times]