Book Prize for Fiction
Congratulations to our winner of the 2024 Book Prize in Fiction!
Angela Jane Fountas, Another Kind of Symmetry
This is a wonderful, rich novel about the push and pull of family and home. The descriptions of Agni’s experiences in Greece, with its ghosts, family history, and village life, contrast sharply with that of her sister Effie’s search for art, freedom, and individuality in New York. I was equally drawn to both of them, and I felt their frustrations and yearnings. The writing is so well-honed and detailed that I was confident all along that I was in good hands, even as I was transported from one place to another. The story never lagged – I was eager to learn the fate of these two young women. And the novel asks interesting questions about how we maintain our deep ties with family and ancestry while also carving out new lives for ourselves. In the end, the novel shows the painful but heartfelt truth: it is never simple.Eowyn Ivey
Angela Jane Fountas is the editor of the anthology Waking Up American: Coming of Age Biculturally. Her fiction has appeared in Fairy Tale Review, Diagram, Redivider, Quick Fiction, and elsewhere. She’s a former Hugo House writer-in-residence and Jack Straw Writer, and the recipient of an Artist Trust Fellowship and grants from the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture and 4Culture. She earned her MFA in creative writing from the University of Alabama and currently lives in Pennsylvania.
91ÊÓƵ Eowyn Ivey
Eowyn (pronounced A-o-win) LeMay Ivey was raised in 91ÊÓƵ and continues to live there with her husband and two daughters. She worked for nearly a decade as a bookseller at independent Fireside Books in Palmer, 91ÊÓƵ, and prior to that as a reporter for the local newspaper, The Frontiersman.
Her new novel, To the Bright Edge of the World, will be released August 2. Her debut novel, The Snow Child, was a New York Times bestseller published in more than 25 languages. It was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, a UK National Book Award winner, an Indies Choice award for debut fiction, and a PNBA Book Award winner.
Eowyn’s essays and short fiction have appeared in London’s Observer Magazine, Sunday Times Magazine, Sunday Express Magazine, Woman & Home Magazine, the anthology Cold Flashes, the North Pacific Rim literary journal Cirque, FiveChapters, and 91ÊÓƵ Magazine.
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