From Publisher's Weekly: Gordon's [fourth] novel begins and ends at a backwoods race track in early-1970s West Virginia, where horse trainer Tommy Hansel dreams up a scam. He'll run four horses in claiming races at long odds and get out before anyone realizes how good his horses are. But at a track as small as Indian Mound Downs, where everyone knows everybody's business, Hansel's hopes are quickly dashed.
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Also announced were awards for Young People's Lit, Poetry, and Non Fiction.
Young People's Literature winner: Kathryn Erskine, Mockingbird
other nominees included, Paolo Bacigalupi, Ship Breaker; Laura McNeal, Dark Water; Walter Dean Myers; Lockdown Rita Williams-Garcia, One Crazy Summer
Poetry winner: Terrance Hayes, Lighthead
other nominees included, Kathleen Graber, The Eternal City; James Richardson, By the Numbers; C.D. Wright, One with Others; Monica Youn, Ignatz.
Non Fiction winner: Patti Smith, Just Kids
other nominees included, Barbara DemickNothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea; John W. Dower, Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, Iraq; Justin Spring, Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward; Megan K. Stack, Every Man in This Village Is a Liar: An Education in War
