![]() ![]() The book is a gritty, coming-of-age memoir about Martinez's border-town family in Brownsville, Texas, and the cultural divide that location and a fairly dysfunctional family straddle. I just wasn't able to compute that I was a finalist for one of them." I mean, I knew what the National Book Awards are. She doesn't mess around, so I knew it had to be important. ![]() Five minutes later, my phone rang again, and it was my agent. Martinez went into shock at the news, telling Globe Pequot that when the phone rang at 6 in the morning, "My first thought was, 'Wow, those bill collectors are starting much earlier these days,' and I ignored it because I didn't recognize the number. ![]() And Lyons Press is definitely the little guy on the block amid names like Doubleday, Knopf, Houghton Miflin and Random House. Caro, Katherine Boo and Anne Applebaum - who hasn't won a Pulitzer Prize. while he's in town from Seattle, where he now lives.īesides being a first-time novelist, Martinez is the only author among the five nominees - Anthony Shadid, Robert A. Asher and the public will meet Martinez at just about the same time as he slips in a signing at the Guilford Free Library Monday at 7 p.m. ![]()
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