Egan beats Franzen in National Book Critics Circle's fiction prize

The Jennifer Egan work bests Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom.' The nonfiction award goes to 'The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration.'Jennifer Egan's " A Visit From the Goon Squad " was awarded the fiction prize from the National Book Critics Circle on Thursday evening, besting Jonathan Franzen's widely publicized novel " Freedom " and works by David Grossman, Hans Keilson and Paul Murray.

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