The Center for Fiction has revealed the seven finalists that made the short list for its annual $10,000 First Novel Prize.
The 2016 finalists are: The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter by Kia Corthron (Seven Stories Press); The Girls by Emma Cline (Random House); Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn (Liveright); Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (Knopf); How I Became a North Korean by Krys Lee (Viking); We Love You, Charlie Freeman by Kaitlyn Greenidge (Algonquin Books); and What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell (Farrar, Straus & Giroux).
Each of the short-listed authors will receive a $1,000 award. Judges this year include: Viet Thanh Nguyen, Chris Abani, Kate Christensen, Rivka Galchen, and Kate Walbert.