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The book was highlighted as the author's debut fiction collection, praised for its 59 interlinked short stories that draw on the historic French laws regulating slavery. A guest noted that it won a prize and was described by judges as a virtuoso work that breaks new ground in short fiction.
Episode: NPR News: 05-01-2025 9PM EDT
This was Kinesia Lubin's debut fiction book, which was a collection of 59 connected short stories. The collection took inspiration from French King Louis XIV's laws that legalized and regulated slavery in France and the French colonies.
Her debut fiction book, Code Noir, won her the prize, though. It's a collection of 59 connected short stories taking inspiration from French King Louis XIV's laws legalizing and regulating slavery in France and the French colonies.
Judges for the Carol Shields Prize called it a, quote, virtuoso collection that breaks new ground in short fiction.