NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST!

Lisa Ko’s powerful debut has earned a well-deserved spot as a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction. The Leavers is the winner of the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Fiction, awarded by Barbara Kingsolver, for a novel that addresses issues of social justice.

Morgan Babst evacuated New Orleans one day before Hurricane Katrina made landfall. After eleven years in New York, she now lives in New Orleans with her husband and child. And her debut novel, The Floating World, is “a story of New Orleans and for New Orleans, offered, like the best things we make in this city, to the world.”