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Kia Corthron
Kia Corthron is a playwright and novelist.She is the daughter of Shirley Elaine Beckwith Corthron and James Leroye Corthron. James was born and raised on a farm outside of Farmville, Virginia. He married Shirley who—as well as their daughters and grandchildren—was born and raised in Cumberland, Maryland, located in a valley of the Appalachians on the Potomac facing West Virginia.In 2016, Kia's debut novel, The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter, was published by Seven Stories Press. It was named a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice and was awarded The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize.
Genres: Literary Fiction
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The Gospel of Orla (2023)
Eoghan Walls
"In his debut novel, poet Eoghan Walls imagines the intersection of the material and the mystic when a grieving adolescent stumbles upon a struggling savior. Walls provides an authentic and page-turning narrative from the perspective of his restless and ever-beguiling protagonist. As the troubled teenager ricochets between circus illusion and divine touch, she and the reader are beckoned to ponder where magic ends and miracles begin."
Before All the World (2022)
Moriel Rothman-Zecher
"A ride as breathtaking as it is gratifying, Moriel Rothman-Zecher's Before All the World deftly explores the relationship between three broken people: two pogrom refugees persecuted in their homeland by virtue of religion who cross an ocean to cross paths with a man persecuted in his own homeland by virtue of race. With tragicomic adroitness, Rothman Zecher's meticulous prose is full of delicious humor and irony, a glorious Yidenglish tapestry confirming that the world is indeed not all darkness."
