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Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2020

Congratulations to Valeria Luiselli and Adam Higginbotham, the 2020 winners of the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction. Luiselli won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction for her novel, LOST CHILDREN ARCHIVE, published by Knopf, an imprint of Penguin Random House. Higginbotham won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction for his book, MIDNIGHT IN CHERNOBYL, published by Simon & Schuster.

Week of February 3, 2020

Paperback releases for the week of February 3rd include DAISY JONES & THE SIX, a gripping novel from Taylor Jenkins Reid about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous breakup; OUTFOX by Sandra Brown, which finds FBI agent Drex Easton becoming a suspect's next-door neighbor after a 30-year search for a serial killer --- but can he navigate a shocking series of twists and turns to track down the truth?; Valeria Luiselli's LOST CHILDREN ARCHIVE, an emotionally resonant, fiercely imaginative novel about a family whose road trip across America collides with an immigration crisis at the southwestern border; and SEPARATE, in which Steve Luxenberg draws from letters, diaries and archival collections to tell the story of Plessy v. Ferguson through the eyes of the people caught up in the case.

Valeria Luiselli, author of Lost Children Archive

A mother and father set out with their two children, driving from New York to Arizona in the heat of summer. Their destination: Apacheria, the place the Apaches once called home. Why Apaches? asks the 10-year-old son. Because they were the last of something, answers his father. In their car, they play games and sing along to music. But on the radio, there is news about an "immigration crisis": thousands of kids trying to cross the southwestern border into the United States, but getting detained --- or lost in the desert along the way.

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