2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction Winner
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears: A Novel
Dinaw Mengestu
Seventeen years after fleeing the Ethiopian revolution, Sepha Stephanos runs a grocery store in a poor African-American neighborhood in Washington, D.C., where he reflects on his past and the differences between his prospects and the life he imagined….
2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction Shortlist
Skylark Farm: A Novel
Antonia Arslan, Geoffrey Brock
The Last Chicken in America: A Novel
Ellen Litman
The Understory
Pamela Erens
