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Quaker Author Rashid Darden Wins North Street Book Prize for A Peculiar Legacy PHILADELPHIA — QuakerBooks, the bookselling ministry of Friends General Conference, celebrates the national recognition of Rashid Darden, whose novel A Peculiar Legacy has been awarded First Prize for Mainstream/Literary Fiction in the 11th Annual North Street Book Prize. The prestigious competition, administered by Winning Writers, received 1,734 submissions from around the world, making Darden’s selection a significant achievement for both the author and the wider Quaker literary community. A Peculiar Legacy is a work grounded in care and conscience, set in a close-knit Black neighborhood in Washington, D.C. In the wake...

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