Three books that explore and celebrate the diversity of American culture were awarded Kirkus Prizes on Wednesday night, with each winner receiving $50,000.

James McBride’s The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, a novel set in an eclectic Pennsylvania town in the 1930s, won in the fiction category. Héctor Tobar’s Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of ‘Latino’ received the nonfiction award, and Ariel Aberg-Riger’s America Redux: Visual Stories From Our Dynamic History won for young reader’s literature.

The awards were presented by the trade publication Kirkus Reviews.

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