You Don't Have to Live Like This
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction | 2015 | Winner |
About This Book
Benjamin Markovits's novel is set in Detroit during the era of urban reclamation under Obama, following a Yale-educated Southerner named Marny who joins an idealistic scheme to repopulate the city's derelict neighbourhoods. As the experiment unravels under the pressures of race, money, and political reality, the novel becomes a searching examination of American liberalism and its limitations. It won the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction in 2015.
About the Author
Benjamin Markovits is an American-British novelist born in 1973 in Stanford, California. He is the son of a former NFL player and has lived in Austin, Texas; Berlin; Germany; and London, where he teaches at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has written extensively about basketball in both fiction and nonfiction. Read more →
