In an upset over Donna Tartt's Pulitzer winner The Goldfinch and Chimamanda Adichie's NBCC winner Americanah, Eimear McBride's debut A Girl is a Half-formed Thing has just won the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (formerly the Orange Prize). Her victory breaks the five-year winning streak by American authors: Robinson, Kingsolver, Obreht, Miller, Homes. Written in six months and unpublished for nine years, the book has also won the Goldsmiths Prize and the Irish Novel of the Year award. Published by a small startup in Norwich, England, it will be released by Coffee House Press in the US in September. (Imported copies are available now via the link.)
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