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Longlisted for the 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
The Family Izquierdo
by Rubén Degollado
Rubén Degollado is an educator from Texas and the author of The Family Izquierdo: A Novel and the young adult novel Throw. His fiction has appeared in Beloit Fiction Journal, Gulf Coast, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and Image.