Gilb is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and has been a finalist for both the PEN/Faulkner and National Book Critics Circle Award.One of his six favorite books, as told to The Week magazine:
Brides and Sinners in El Chuco by Christine GranadosRead about another book on the list.
It is only since the mid-'70s that literature by Chicanos has even been a speck on a distant horizon in our country. Even less than a speck has been Chicana fiction. Granados represents the beginning of a new direction in fiction. In this 2006 collection, the characters she inhabits are both powerfully strong and messed up — just as poor and working-class people really are.
--Marshal Zeringue
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