National Book Award winners Louise Erdrich and Katherine Boo

National Book Award winners
Louise Erdrich's novel "The Round House" won the 2012 National Book Award for fiction and Katherine Boo won the 2012 National Book Award for non-fiction for her book "Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity."
Book covers courtesy of publisher
The National Book Awards were announced last week (see the full list of finalists and winners here) and today we

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