BGHB 2021: A Sitting in St. James

by Horn Book
Oct 28, 2021 | Filed in Book Awards

We've reached the culmination of Fiction and Poetry week in our month-long virtual Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards celebration.

 

Today, judge Nicholl Denice Montgomery introduces the 2021 BGHB Fiction and Poetry Winner A Sitting in St. James:

 

The 2021 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Fiction and Poetry is presented to Rita Williams-Garcia for A Sitting in St. James published by Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins.

Here is Rita receiving her silver bowl and being interviewed via video by Horn Book editor in chief Roger Sutton:

 

Read the Horn Book's review of A Sitting in St. James here, peruse extra content by and about Rita Williams-Garcia here, and learn more about the awards here.

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