The senator from Pennsylvania chronicles his stroke, unlikely election victory and battle with depression. Just don’t expect him to try to win you over.
The rags-to-riches tale had already made fans of Zadie Smith and Dua Lipa. Roddy Doyle, who chaired the judging panel, called the book “singular” and “extraordinary.”
Ann Packer’s latest novel, “Some Bright Nowhere,” explores the unexpected rupture that a terminal cancer diagnosis causes in a long and happy marriage.