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If you would like Ann to join your book club discussion in person or by speaker phone, contact her at ann@annweisgarber.com.
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Honors and Events

Honors

  • Included on National Public Radio's This Week's (August 8-14) Outstanding Softcover Releases.

  • Shortlisted for the 2011 Ohioana Book Award (Fiction).

Selected by Black Pearls Magazine as a Sankofa Literary Society Top Book for 2010.


  • Selected by Terry McMillan (Waiting to Exhale, Getting to Happy) as one of two books on her fall reading list – USA Today

  • Selected by Barnes & Noble for its Discover Great New Writers program, Fall 2010.

  • Selected by the American Booksellers Association for the August 2010 Indie Next List Great Reads.

  • Selected as a Midwest Connection Pick for August.

  • One of six featured in the August 2010 The New York Times Newly Released Books.

  • Selected by the Chicago Sun-Times as one of ten fiction books for 2010 summer reading

  • January 2010's Book of the Month for bookgroup.info, a leading online organization in the UK for book discussion groups. It was a Recommended Book for February and March.

  • Recipient of the Langum Prize for American Historical Fiction for 2010 sponsored by The Langum Charitable Trust.

  • Recipient of the 2009 Steven Turner Award for Best Work of First Fiction sponsored by the Texas Institute of Letters.

  • Shortlisted for UK's Orange Award for New Writers 2009 and longlisted for Orange Prize for Fiction 2009.

    Listen to Ann's reading at London's Southbank Centre:



    Click here to see pictures of the Orange Prize Awards Ceremony in London.

 

Events

  • SUGAR LAND, TX
    The Terrace Book Discussion Club – December 19

  • RAPID CITY, SD
    Piedmont Bluestockings Book Club – January 19 (via Skype)

  • DALLAS, TX
    American Library Association Midwinter Meeting – January 21

  • HOUSTON, TX
    Poets & Writers Ball – February 18

  • ST. LOUIS, MO
    St. Louis Publishers Association – April 11