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American Book Award 2022

Humanities Book of the Year

2022

Louisiana Writer Award 2021

"illuminating and compulsively readable."
Read Your Way Through New Orleans
The New York Times 2024

Great Reads from Great Places,
Library of Congress, National Book Festival 2022

"'Economy Hall' is so inviting that the true depth of its scholarship is revealed only in its bibliography, which lists dozens of archival and other sources. Shaik's monumental book....is lyrical and mysterious and always captivating." The New York Times (The Shortlist, 2021)

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