Delicious Foods
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction | 2016 | Winner |
About This Book
After Eddie's father is killed in a racially motivated act of violence, his mother Darlene is lured into a modern slavery scheme on a Louisiana farm, leaving Eddie to search for her. The novel's narrators include Eddie and, bizarrely, crack cocaine personified. A darkly comic, formally inventive novel about race, addiction, and exploitation in contemporary America. Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award.
About the Author
James Hannaham is an American novelist and artist. He is the author of Delicious Foods (2015), a darkly comic and morally complex novel about a young Black man whose mother is trapped in a modern slavery scheme on a Louisiana farm, narrated in part by crack cocaine personified. The novel won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 2016, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction, and was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. Read more →
