Tayari Jones’ novel Kin, which explores the lives of two Black friends from Louisiana, has won the Kirkus Prize for fiction. In nonfiction, the award went to Paula Colloff for Catch the Devil: A True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coast, while Elizabeth Acevedo received the prize for young readers’ literature for Anger Is Only a Shadow. Each winner is awarded $50,000.
The finalists included Colson Whitehead’s Cool Machine, Douglas Stuart’s John of John, and Patrick Radden Keefe’s London Falling. The Kirkus Awards, established in 2014 by Kirkus Reviews, have previously honored authors like Whitehead, Joy Williams, and Ta-Nehisi Coates.
