WINNER

American Book Award

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NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR

The New York Times Book Review

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FINALIST

The Los Angeles Times

Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction

“Graciela Limón’s first novel, In Search of Bernabé, leaves the reader with that special hunger that can be created only by a newly discovered writer … At once stark and resonant, it follows the lives of half a dozen characters, most notably a suffering mother and her sons, two men who are moral opposites, caught up in El Salvador’s bloody civil war … Her novel’s grounding in the history of the period is clear and effective. In addition, Ms. Limón’s prose is assured and engrossing. In Search of Bernabé deserves a large audience.”

—Ilan Stavans, The New York Times Book Review

“In this well-constructed first novel about El Salvador during the civil strife of the 1980s. Limón tells a tragic family saga … Compelling and chilling.”

—Publishers Weekly

“A tightly woven first novel … Limón’s keen eye for the ways in which ordinary individuals get caught up in extraordinary events rivals that of Joan Didion in her 1984 novel Democracy.”

—Booklist

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