The 2023 Massachusetts Book Awards were announced today and The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali is the winner in fiction. What an honor and a thrill! A blessing with a kiss.
Learn more, and buy a copy: https://bookshop.org/lists/2023-massachusetts-book-awards
Congratulations to all the winners, honorees, must-reads in all the categories--all who dare to write a book and put it out there.
Writers need privacy and quiet, but also community and reciprocity. Maybe especially those of us who've been at it for a long time. James Baldwin said it best, of course: "Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent is all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance." Endurance needs support. Today I feel the support.
Immense gratitude to Mass Center for the Book and to Massachusetts librarians for reading and judging. Every librarian, every reader, every organization that supports literature and those who create it, is doing the work of keeping a dying culture of empathy and imagination alive. This is warrior work. Thank you, thank you.
Read the full list in all categories: https://www.massbook.org/mass-book-awards
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