PULITZER PRIZE WINNING FICTION

Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson "I told you last night that I might be gone sometime, and you said, Where, and I said, To be with the Good Lord, and..." (more) SIPs: old sermons CAPs: Jack Boughton, John Ames Boughton, Karl Barth, John Brown, Fifth Commandment (more)

Wow, this is in first-person present, just like what I'm writing :) I better check this one out.

The Known World by Edward P. Jones "The evening his master died he worked again well after he ended the day for the other adults, his own wife among them, and sent..." (more) SIPs: dead man layin, boardinghouse woman, nigger side, traveling eye, young stuff CAPs: William Robbins, Henry Townsend, John Skiffington, North Carolina, Manchester County (more)