Last night
the winner for the 2016 Kirkus Prize for Fiction was announced. The award went to C. E. Morgan for The Sport of Kings. She will receive $50,000.
Plot
Summary: The title refers to horse
racing, and the novel centres itself within that world: a connected web of
humans and animals, as well as a fertile patch of land, in the heart of
Kentucky. C.E. Morgan puts readers
inside the consciousness of a range of characters who inhabit that patch of
land through the years: an adolescent trying to grow up under the withering
gaze of his landowner father; a brilliant black woman struggling with her
seeming fate to be a household servant; a whip-smart boy who grows up in the
ghetto but seeks to know more about his mysterious origins; and a girl whose
uncompromising love of her family's legacy leads her to gamble with her own
life.
C.E.
Morgan's novel The Sport of Kings
"takes the kind of dauntless, breathtaking chances readers once routinely
expected from the boldest of American novels," the panel of judges wrote
in their citation.
For the
full Kirkus review, go to https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/ce-morgan/the-sport-of-kings/.
For the
shortlist with plot summaries, go to http://schatjesshelves.blogspot.ca/2016/09/kirkus-prize-for-fiction-shortlist.html.
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