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NEW YORK -- Colson Whitehead's “Harlem Shuffle,” Honorée Fanonne Jeffers' “The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois” and a debut story collection by Anthony Veasna So, a promising writer who died before his book was published, are among this year's nominees for National Book Critics Circle awards.Other nominees range from Torrey Peters' acclaimed first novel “Detransition, Baby” to Mark Harris' biography of Mike Nichols to Rebecca Solnit's “Orwell's Roses,” in which she connects Orwell's worldview to his joy in gardening and other domestic activities.Winners will be announced March 17.The NBCC announced five finalists in each of six competitive categories, and six nominees in a separate category for best first novel.

refugees, a failed computer scientist, a grotesque parody of the model minority, and a graduate of Stanford University.” In “Afterparties," to be published in August, he drew upon the tragedies his family endured in Cambodia during the rule of the Khmer Rouge and his own struggles with sexual and cultural identity.“'Afterparties' was one of the first books I acquired for Ecco, and everything about Anthony’s exuberant writing felt new to me — its blazing wit, crackling energy, deep empathy,” So's