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The National Book Foundation’s 2024 Fiction Longlist
Featuring three debut novels, two short-story collections, and one Miranda July.
Fiction judges Jamie Ford, Lauren Groff, Zeyn Joukhadar, Chawa Magaña, and Reginald McKnight assessed a total of 473 submissions, eventually narrowing the list down to ten books. Included on the list is Miranda July’s novel All Fours, about a 45-year-old married woman who forgoes a road trip after driving just a few miles from home, holes up in a hotel room, and pursues a relationship with a younger man. James, by Percival Everett, is a sly retelling of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Creation Lake, by Rachel Kushner, reworks the spy thriller for a louche protagonist embedded within a community of French activists.
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