In the literary world, anticipation mixed with apprehension as the date for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize announcements approached, after last year's decision not to award the Fiction prize (for the first time in 35 years).
But there was no controversy attached to this year's Fiction winner, The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson. It is a romance imbedded in a thriller wrapped in a grim depiction of one of the world's strangest countries, North Korea, all elements adding up to an engrossing read. Try it.
Mary Hoskinson-Dean
