HISTORY ‘ Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America,’ by Marcia Chatelain (Liveright)Ĭhatelain, a history professor at Georgetown, offers a look at the intricate ties between the fast-food behemoth and Black communities - and how their relationships were full of compromises and contradictions. “The grand pleasures of fiction are all here: rich, cushioning detail vivid characters delivering decisive action and a sense of escape into a larger world,” a reviewer for The Guardian wrote.įinalist: “ Telephone,” by Percival Everett (Graywolf) Mason spent 15 years working on this collection of short fiction, with stories set in far-flung places like the Malay Archipelago, the outer limits of the atmosphere, an asylum on the edge of Rio de Janeiro. Our reviewer called the book “a magisterial epic that brings her power of witness to every page.”įinalist: “ A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth,” by Daniel Mason (Little, Brown) The title character was modeled after Erdrich’s grandfather, who sent voluminous letters to Washington in an effort to save his tribe. This novel follows members of the Chippewa in the 1950s, as Congress weighs a bill to “emancipate” Indigenous people from their lands and their tribal affiliations. Fiction ‘ The Night Watchman,’ by Louise Erdrich (Harper/HarperCollins Publishers)
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