T. Geronimo Johnson's “Welcome to Braggsville” Longlisted for National Book Award

BCNM's T. Geronimo Johnson’s new novel “Welcome to Braggsville,” has been longlisted for this year's National Book Award. "Welcome to Braggsville" relates the humorous story of four UC Berkeley students who plot a protest against a Civil War re-enactment in a segregated Southern town.

The judges for this year’s Fiction category are the novelist and journalist Daniel Alarcón; the author and English professor Jeffery Renard Allen; Sarah Bagby, the owner of Watermark Books & Café in Wichita, Kansas; novelist Laura Lippman, and Los Angeles Times book critic David Ulin.

National Book Awards finalists will be announced on October 14th, and the winners will be announced at a ceremony in New York on November 18th.