Tucson Festival of Books

SW Books of the Year - Fiction


A woman looks for a missing friend. An alcoholic musician can’t get rid of a mysterious four-legged visitor, and a teen wonders about the stranger at the edge of town. These three novelists will tell us about stories that became Southwest Books of the Year.


Panelists
Sydney Graves

Sydney Graves is a pseudonym used Kate Christensen, an Arizona native and the author of eight novels, most recently, "Arizona Triangle." Her fourth novel, "The Great Man," won a PEN Faulkner Award for Fiction....

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Marcela Fuentes

Marcela Fuentes is a Pushcart Prize-winning fiction writer and essayist. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and was the 2016-2017 James C. McCreight Fiction Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing....

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Willy Vlautin

Willy Vlautin is an author and musician who has written seven novels, the latest being "The Horse." Three of his books, "The Motel Life," "Lean on Pete" and "The Night Always Comes," have been adapted into movies, and his work has been translated into 15 languages....

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Books:
The Arizona Triangle
A Jo Bailen Detective Novel
Sydney Graves
Mystery / Thrillers
HarperCollins
January 2024
ISBN 9780063379992
304 pages
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Malas
A Novel
Marcela Fuentes
Nuestras Raices
Penguin Publishing Group
June 2024
ISBN 9780593655788
384 pages
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The Night Always Comes
A Novel
Willy Vlautin
Fiction / Literature
Harper Perrenial
January 2022
ISBN 9780063035096
240 pages
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