2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction Winner
American Rust: A Novel
Philipp Meyer
Set in a beautiful but dying Pennsylvania steel town, American Rustis a novel of the lost American dream and the desperation that arises from its loss.It is the story of two young men bound to the town by family, responsibility, inertia and the beauty arou…
2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction Shortlist
An Elegy for Easterly
Petina Gappah
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned: Stories
Wells Tower
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
Daniyal Mueenuddin
