Tochi Onyebuchi’s
Riot Baby has been nominated for an NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Literary Work for Fiction.
The NAACP Image Awards were first presented in 1967, and were founded to honor outstanding performances in film, television, music, and literature. This year, the nominees for Outstanding Literary Work of Fiction are:
Black Bottom Saints by Alice Randall (HarperCollins Publishers)
Lakewood by Megan Giddings (HarperCollins Publishers)
Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi (TorDotCom Publishing)
The Awkward Black Man by Walter Mosley (Grove Atlantic)
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett (Riverhead Books)
Tochi Onyebuchi’s
Riot Baby is perhaps best described in a review from Alex Brown which begins by telling readers: