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    James McBride's 'Five-Carat Soul' Is A Gem

    The National Book Award-winning writer's debut story collection includes stories both straightforward and surreal. Our critic calls it "brash, daring and defiantly original."
    by Michael Schaub Sep 26, 2017 3 minutes
    Source: Christina Ascani

    There are a lot of things to admire about James McBride: chiefly, his refusal to be pinned down. The journalist and writer took the literary world by storm in 1995 with his memoir The Color of, then followed it up with three well-received historical novels, the most recent of which, , won the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction. Between books, he's busied himself with screenwriting, songwriting, and playing his beloved tenor saxophone.

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