National Book Award
This year’s winners of the National Book Awards were announced on November 18th. The choice for fiction, Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann, is one of my favorite books from this year’s reading, and I was thrilled to find out this morning that it had won this prestigious award. Too often in recent years I have been disappointed by the winner, but this choice is one that I will be able to personally recommend with enthusiasm. Set in New York City during the days in 1974 that Phillipe Petit crossed a wire between the twin towers of the World Trade Center, each chapter is told from a different character’s point of view. The individual stories connect in surprising and satisfying ways.
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