NMLP P-014603 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Improvement

Joan Silber · Counterpoint · 2017

The US Counterpoint hardcover of 2017 is the true first. It won both the 2018 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-014603 for "Improvement" by Joan Silber (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-014603, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).