The finalists for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, which awards $25,000 to the author of a debut work of fiction, are "Battleborn," by Claire Vaye Watkins; "Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain," by Lucia Perillo; "My Only Wife," by Jac Jemc; "A Land More Kind Than Home," by Wiley Cash; and "A Naked Singularity," by Sergio de la Pava.
Nine-year-old Jess Hall, one of the narrators of Wiley Cash's mesmerizing first novel, A LAND MORE KIND THAN HOME (Morrow/ HarperCollins $24.99), gets up the nerve to spy on the religious services held behind those papered-up windows — and he'll regret it the rest of his life.
The other three finalists for the prize are Wiley Cash for "A Land More Kind Than Home," published by William Morrow Lucia Perilloo for "Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain," published by W.W. Norton; and Claire Vaye Watkins for "Battleborn," published by Riverhead.
"A Land More Kind Than Home" (William Morrow), Wiley Cash "A Naked Singularity" (University of Chicago Press), Sergio de la Pava "My Only Wife" (Dzanc Books), Jac Jemc "Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain" (W.W. Norton & Co ., Lucia Perillo "Battleborn" (Riverhead Books), Claire Vaye Watkins.
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