THE 2015 PATERSON FICTION PRIZE
Marilynne Robinson, Lila (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, NY)
Marilynne Robinson's Lila is a haunting and mesmerizing novel of grit and grace and of the way our past impacts our present. Robinson is a literary archaeologist who delves the deepest levels of her protagonist's psychological landscape to create a profoundly moving work of fiction.
— Laura Boss, Judge
FINALISTS
- Michael Cunningham, The Snow Queen (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, NY)
- Jim Ray Daniels, Eight Mile High (Michigan State University Press, East Lansing, MI)
- Murray Farish, Inappropriate Behavior (Milkweed Editions, Minneapolis, MN)
- Lisa Lenzo, Strange Love (Wayne State University Press, Detroit, MI)
- Helen Oyeyemi, Boy, Snow, Bird (Riverhead Books, New York, NY)
- Lee Upton, The Tao of Humiliation (BOA Editions, Ltd., Rochester, NY)
- Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests (Riverhead Books, New York, NY)