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Dawnie Walton Wins the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award for 'The Final Revival of Opal & Nev'
RICHMOND, Virginia, July 2 (TNSawa) -- Virginia Commonwealth University issued the following news: By Mary Kate Brogan Dawnie Walton has won the 2022 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, which honors an outstanding debut novel published during the preceding calendar year. Her winning book, "The Final Revival of Opal & Nev," published by Simon & Schuster, follows the story of an interracial rock duo's sudden 1970s rise to stardom, the band's headline-making breakup and the secrets that, decades lat  more