Tomb of the Unknown Racist. Blanche McCrary Boyd

This is her first novel in twenty years, completing the trilogy that began with The Revolution of Little Girls (nominated for a Southern Book Award and winner of the Lambda Literary Award and the Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction) and [i]Terminal Velocity< (also a Lambda nominee) Among the awards Boyd has won are a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fiction Fellowship, a Creative Writing Fellowship from the South Carolina Arts Commission, and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing from Stanford.