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Black Issues Book Review, Jan-Feb, 2005

In Debut Fiction

(winner) Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, September 2003, ISBN 1-565-12387-5.

(finalist) A Place Between Stations by Stephanie Allen University of Missouri Press, February 2003, ISBN 0-826-21444-4.

(finalist) Knee-Deep in Wonder by April Reynolds, Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, September 2003, ISBN 0-805-07346-9.

In Nonfiction

(winner) In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis Jr. by Wil Haygood, Knopf, October 2003, ISBN 0-375-40354-X.

(finalist) Mandela, Mobutu and Me: A Newswoman's African Journey by Lynne Duke, Doubleday, January 2003, ISBN 0-385-50398-9.

(finalist) Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity by E. Patrick Johnson, Duke University Press, November 2003, ISBN 0-822-33154-3.

In Fiction

(winner) Hunting in Harlem by Mat Johnson, Bloomsbury, May 2003, ISBN 1-582-34272-5.

(finalist) The Polished Hoe by Austin Clarke Amistad/HarperCollins, June 2003, ISBN 0-060-55565-3.

(finalist) A Distant Shore by Caryl Phillips, Knopf, October 2003, ISBN 1-400-04109-0.

Patrice Gaines is an author, freelance writer and motivational speaker who lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.