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Book-of-the-Week Winners: The Death of Fidel Pérez

by The Editors

Our most recent feature was Elizabeth Huergo’s debut novel The Death of Fidel Pérez, and we’re pleased to announce the winners: Writer Chick (@writerchick17) Leslie C. Ferdinand (@ferdinandleslie) Brenna Gomez (@BrennaGo) Congrats! To claim your free copy, please email us at the following address: winners [at] fictionwritersreview.com If you’d like to be eligible for future giveaways, please visit our Twitter Page and “follow” us! Thanks to all of you who are fans. We appreciate your support. Let us know your favorite new books out there!


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Book of the Week: The Death of Fidel Pérez, by Elizabeth Huergo

by The Editors

Our newest feature is Elizabeth Huergo’s debut novel, The Death of Fidel Pérez, which was published this month by Unbridled Books. Elizabeth Huergo was born in Havana and immigrated to the United States at an early age as a political refugee. Her work has been published in such places as Diaspora and Potomoc Review, as well as anthologized in such collections as I Go to the Ruined Place: Contemporary Poems in Defense of Global Human Rights and Gravity Dancers: Even More Fiction by Washington Area Women. She teaches at George Mason University and lives in Virginia. Huergo can be found […]


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The Histories We Tell: An Interview with Elizabeth Huergo

by Melissa Scholes Young

“When you live in a nation that has been politically destabilized by outside forces, anything is possible. I know what it’s like firsthand for a government to fall, for a system to collapse. If you’ve lived in a society where that has happened, there is nothing ‘magical’ about that ‘realism”: Elizabeth Huergo talks with Melissa Scholes Young about her debut novel, The Death of Fidel Pérez.



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