he winners of the 2016 Great Lakes Great Reads, sponsored by the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association and chosen "because they represent excellence in writing about, or by authors with ties to the Great Lakes region," are:
Adult fiction: Mothers, Tell Your Daughters by Bonnie Jo Campbell (Norton)
Adult nonfiction: Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story by David Maraniss (Simon and Schuster)
Children's/YA fiction: Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D. Schmidt (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Children's/YA fiction: Salt to the Sea by Ruta Septys (Philomel/Penguin Random House)
Determined by votes from GLIBA members, the awards will be presented at the Book Awards Dinner at the Heartland Fall Forum on October 5 in Minneapolis, Minn.
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Katherine Clark has won the 2015 Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction for her first novel, The Headmaster's Darlings (Story River Books), according to the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance. Reba White Williams, sponsor of the award, praised the book for its "originality, Southerness, and uplifting message, all requisite qualities for the Willie Morris Award."
The Willie Morris Award also gave its first Special Recognition award, to Sarah Addison Allen, for her six novels published over the past eight years, beginning with Garden Spells (2007) and more recently First Frost (2015). Allen calls her style "Southern-fried magic realism."