2009 recipient of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction by an American Woman

This year the 2009 Recipient of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction by an American Woman is Isla Morley for her novel "Come Sunday" published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux and now in paperback from Picador. The Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women's Studies and the Department of English at the University of Rochester, which sponsor the award, called Come Sunday "a spellbinding drama about a woman breaking free of seemingly insurmountable grief when her three-year-old daughter is killed in a car accident and what it takes to revive hope when all seems lost." Morley was born in South Africa and lives now in Los Angeles, California