A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash (Morrow) has won the inaugural Maine Readers' Choice Award, founded by the Maine State Library and the Maine Library Association to increase awareness and reading of adult literary fiction. The award was announced at the opening ceremony of the Bangor Book Festival.
Wiley is about as smart, kind and genuine as they come.
Check out this wonderful video he made in response to winning this award:
A Land More Kind Than Home received glowing praise well before it was published.
Wiley’s next book, This Dark Road to Mercy, due out January 28, 2014, is enjoying the same response:
“THIS DARK ROAD TO MERCY is a terrific, moving and propulsive novel: Harper Lee by way of Elmore Leonard." - Jess Walter, New York Times best-selling author of Beautiful Ruins and We Live in Water
“On the heels of his wildly successful debut, Wiley Cash has written another winner. It's a time capsule and at times an edgy thriller, but at its fine emotional center it’s all about what it means to be a father." - Jill McCorkle, New York Times best-selling author of Life After Life and Going Away Shoes
Congratulations, Wiley!
–Virginia