NBCC Board member and fiction committee chair Laurie Muchnick announced the 2011 winner for fiction:
Edith Pearlman, Binocular Vision (Lookout Books)
Finalists include:
Teju Cole, Open City (Random House)
Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Alan Hollinghurst, The Stranger’s Child (Knopf)
Dana Spiotta, Stone Arabia (Scribner)