My fellow New Orleanian, Bill Loehfelm, was announced the winner of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award earlier this month. Loehfelm wrote the winning novel, Fresh Kills, after his return to the city following Hurricane Katrina.
According to Publishers Weekly, “The action plays out on the mean streets of Staten Island and its famous garbage dump, Fresh Kills, and the author evokes the particulars of lower middle class life with great understanding.”
The novel will be published by the G. P. Putnam’s Sons imprint of Penguin Group (USA) in Summer 2008, and is available now for pre-order on Amazon.com.
Congratulations, Bill!
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