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@tammyingram Last 6 months: Fiction: Ernest J. Gaines, A Lesson Before Dying Nonfiction: Walter Johnson, The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States
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I gotta read “A Lesson Before Dying” by Ernest Gaines
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Ernest Gaines’ 1993 novel, A Lesson Before Dying, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. Gaines was a MacArthur Foundation fellow & was awarded the National Humanities Medal. He has a US Postal Stamp on sale now, too! https://t.co/mmhh8bvKwF
"A Lesson Before Dying reconfirms Ernest J. Gaines's position as an important American writer." --Boston Globe
"Enormously moving. . . . Gaines unerringly evokes the place and time about which he writes." --Los Angeles Times
"A quietly moving novel [that] takes us back to a place we've been before to impart a lesson for living." --San Francisco Chronicle