Today Show Book Club to Read The Known World

On Tuesday, November 18, author Carl Hiaasen recommended The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad Press) as the next selection to be read by NBC News' Today Show Today Book Club.

The Known World was also a September/October Book Sense 76 pick and is a National Book Award finalist. Carla Cohen, Politics and Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse, Washington, D.C., whose quote appears on the Book Sense 76 list to represent the opinions of many independent booksellers, said of the novel, "I am in awe of Edward Jones' precise language and the weave of the story, but what I most admire is his brutal honesty. Every reader will again have to confront the horrors of slavery and how it brutalized every individual who was involved. That the slave owners are themselves black adds a new, terrifying dimension. This is a masterful novel."

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For more on The Known World, go to http://news.bookweb.org/read/1938.