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Sos short story collection was published eight months after he died from a drug overdose at 28.
The work is sun-drenched yet calcified by generational shields that his characters cant seem to rid themselves of.
Sos work joins other National Book Critics Circle winners including Honoree Fanonne JefferssThe Love Songs of W.E.B.
Du Bois, a debut novel that channels the marrow of T.S.
Eliots poemThe Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,through the kaleidoscope of Black American experiences in the South.
