Delicious Foods; A Novel
New York: Back Bay Books, Little, Brown and Company, 2015. Fifth printing. Trade paperback. The format is approximately 5.5 inches by 8.25 inches. xiv, 367, [3] pages. Decorative front cover with Pen/Faulkner Winner Award for Fiction emblem. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads For Dwight SFA '18 Forever! James Hannaham. Cover has some wear and soiling. WINNER OF THE 2016 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION; WINNER OF THE HURSTON/WRIGHT LEGACY FICTION AWARD; FINALIST FOR THE 2016 DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE; FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES PRIZE FOR FICTION; NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times, Washington Post; A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, Kirkus, BuzzFeed, National Post, Kansas City Star; TOP 10 BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Publishers Weekly; and TOP 15 BOOKS OF THE YEAR: BookPage. James Hannaham (born 1968) is a writer, performer, and visual artist. His novel Delicious Foods (2015), which deals with human trafficking, won the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. The New York Times called it an “ambitious, sweeping novel of American captivity and exploitation. He studied art at Yale University and in 1992 began working in the art department of The Village Voice as well as writing for the paper. Later he studied creative writing at the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas. Hannaham is a professor in the writing program at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. His most recent published work is the 2022 novel Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta. More