2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction Winner
![The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears: A Novel](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581038002-6973-image-3.jpg)
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears: A Novel
Dinaw Mengestu
Seventeen years after fleeing the Ethiopian revolution, Sepha Stephanos runs a grocery store in a poor African-American neighborhood in Washington, D.C., where he reflects on his past and the differences between his prospects and the life he imagined….
2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction Shortlist
![Skylark Farm: A Novel](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581063495-8177-image-3.jpg)
Skylark Farm: A Novel
Antonia Arslan, Geoffrey Brock
![The Last Chicken in America: A Novel](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581046667-7421-image-3.jpg)
The Last Chicken in America: A Novel
Ellen Litman
![The Understory](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580944657-60524-image-3.jpg)
The Understory
Pamela Erens
![Twenty Grand: And Other Tales of Love and Money](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580945274-60575-image-3.jpg)