Malawi's sisters a novel

"Winner of the Kimbilio National Fiction Prize. Selected by Edwidge Danticat"--Cover.

Main Author:	Hatter, Melanie S.
Format:	Books Print Book
Published:	New York : Four Way Books, [2019.]
Subjects:	Sigel, Janelle tribute. African American women > Crimes against > Fiction. Victims of violent crimes > Fiction. Civil rights movements > Fiction.

Summary:	"Winner of the Kimbilio National Fiction Prize. Selected by Edwidge Danticat"--Cover. Hatters artful, moving novel looks closely at the murder of a young black woman and her family's devastation. Old and new questions about race and civil rights in 21st Century America arise alongside the unfolding story of Malawi and those who live in the wake of her loss.
Physical Description:	310 pages
ISBN:	9781945588303 1945588306
Author Notes:	Melanie S. Hatter is the author of Malawi's Sisters, winner of the inaugural Kimbilio National Fiction Prize, selected by Edwidge Danticat (Four Way Books, 2019), The Color of My Soul, winner of the 2011 Washington Writers' Publishing House Fiction Prize, and Let No One Weep for Me, Stories of Love and Loss. Her short stories have appeared in The Whistling Fire, Defying Gravity, TimBookTu, and Diverse Voices Quarterly. She was a runner-up winner in the Fiction category of the 2015 and 2016 Montgomery Writes contests sponsored by the Maryland Writers' Association. She is a regular participant in the PEN/Faulkner Foundation's Writers in Schools program in Washington, D.C., and serves on the board of the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation.