DEBRA
THOMAS
Award-winning Author
2023 American Fiction Award Finalist
2023 Hawthorne Prize Shortlist
2024 WILLA Literary Award Finalist "Debra Thomas is a magician. Her artistry, empathy, and gentle humor allow Josie and Vic, a novel grounded in the deepest of grief, to shine with hope, with compassion, with the reminder that connection and service offer us paths toward healing. An unforgettable, heart-filled, heart-filling novel."
Gayle Brandeis
Author of The Book of Dead Birds, winner of Barbara Kingsolver’s Bellwether Prize
Josie and Vic
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Winner: 2020 Sarton Award for Contemporary Fiction
Winner: 2020 Next Generation Indie Book Award for Multicultural Fiction
Winner 2024 Eric Hoffer First Horizon Award
Finalist: 2020 International Book Awards Order Now!
Foreword by Alma Luz Villanueva
Author of The Ultraviolet Sky, winner of the American Book Award,
and most recently, Song of the Golden Scorpion
“Debra Thomas has written a novel of beauty and the nobility of the human spirit in the face of brutality and overwhelming odds. It’s an adventure as well, full of vivid characters, most notably Alma Cruz, as wise and courageous a heroine as you’ll find anywhere in literature. Luz is a story we need to read now more than ever.”
Elizabeth McKenzie
author of The Portable Veblen
About Debra Thomas
Debra Thomas is a Sarton Award Winner in Contemporary Fiction for her debut novel,Luz. Her second novel, Josie and Vic, is a Women Writing the West 2024 WILLA Literary Award Finalist in Multiform Fiction.
