Atwood, Rushdie among Booker Prize finalists

NEW YORK (AP) — Margaret Atwood’s “The Testaments,” her highly anticipated sequel to “The Handmaid’s Tale,” is among six works shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction.
Other finalists announced Tuesday include Salman Rushdie’s “Quichotte,” his modern telling of “Don Quixote,” and Lucy Ellmann’s epic stream-of-consciousness novel “Ducks, Newburyport.” The other nominees are Bernardine Evaristo’s &