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Tess Gunty, Imani Perry among National Book Awards winners

Poetry finalist Allison Adelle Hedge Coke attends the 73rd National Book Awards, at Cipriani Wall Street on Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP) Young People's Literature finalist Kelly Barnhill attends the 73rd National Book Awards, at Cipriani Wall Street on Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP) This combination of book cover images shows National Book Award winners, from left, "The Rabbit Hutch" by Tess Gunty, "South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation" by Imani Perry, "All My Rage" by Sabaa Tahir, and "Punks: New & Selected Poems" by John Keene. (Knopf/Ecco/Razorbill/The Song Cave via AP) Young People's Literature finalists Dawud Anyabwile, left, Tommie Smith and Derrick Barnes, right, attend the 73rd National Book Awards ,at Cipriani Wall Street on Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP) Lifetime Achievement honoree Art Spiegelman, right, and presenter Neil Gaiman attend the 73rd National Book Awards at Cipriani Wall Street on Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP) Poetry finalist Roger Reeves attends the 73rd National Book Awards, at Cipriani Wall Street on Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP) Tess Gunty attends the 73rd National Book Awards at Cipriani Wall Street on Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP) Nonfiction finalist Meghan O'Rourke attends the 73rd National Book Awards at Cipriani Wall Street on Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP) Jason Mott, left, and Robert Jones, Jr attend the 73rd National Book Awards at Cipriani Wall Street on Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP) Young People's Literature finalist Sonora Reyes attends the 73rd National Book Awards, at Cipriani Wall Street on Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP) Young People's Literature finalist Lisa Yee attends the 73rd National Book Awards, at Cipriani Wall Street on Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP) Nonfiction finalist Ingrid Rojas Contreras attends the 73rd National Book Awards at Cipriani Wall Street on Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP) Padma Lakshmi attends the 73rd National Book Awards at Cipriani Wall Street on Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP) Lifetime achievement honoree Art Spiegelman attends the 73rd National Book Awards at Cipriani Wall Street on Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP) Lifetime achievement honoree Art Spiegelman attends the 73rd National Book Awards at Cipriani Wall Street on Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP) Nonfiction finalist Imani Perry attends the 73rd National Book Awards, at Cipriani Wall Street on Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP) Margaret Mitsutani attends the 73rd National Book Awards at Cipriani Wall Street, on Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP) Nonfiction finalists Robert Samuels, left, and Toluse Olorunnipa attend the 73rd National Book Awards at Cipriani Wall Street on Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)