The Home for Wayward Girls, by Marcia Bradley:
Honorable Mention in the 2023 Los Angeles Book Festival Competition

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Marcia receiving a BRIO Award for Fiction from Bryan E. Glover, Deputy Director of Grants and Programs, Bronx Council on the Arts for her novel Englewood

… The way they list it, the way I saw it when I typed gun deaths into the old Dell laptop my brother gave my son, so I guess it is mine now, was Marcus, Jason, Vaughn, Scottie, another Jason, Tremayne, Lucy, yes, there are girls, Jarell, Gary, Donald, and Theresa, Shaneda, a second Tremayne, Sterling, Juan, Antonio. The causes are listed. Gunshot, gunshot, gunshot alley …
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