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The King Is Always Above the People: Stories

by Alarc

Stories shaped by migration, family, and uncertain futures

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Awards & Recognition

  • Award recognition

    2017 National Book Award for Fiction longlist

    Listed on the 2017 longlist for Fiction.

AlbakiReads Editorial

Stories shaped by migration, family, and uncertain futures

This short-story collection brings together journeys marked by immigration, betrayal, family secrets, doomed love, and uncertain futures. Its subjects range from Los Angeles gang members to Latin American families, placing intimate family concerns alongside wider questions of belonging and displacement. The stories are presented as high-stakes journeys, with broken dreams among the collection’s recurring concerns.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • For readers interested in short fiction about immigration and displacement.
  • For readers seeking stories centered on Latin American families, family secrets, and fractured hopes.
  • For readers interested in varied subjects, including Los Angeles gang members and doomed love.

Themes

Immigration and displacementFamily secrets and betrayalBroken dreams and uncertain futuresDoomed love

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Book overview

LONGLISTED for the 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION

An urgent, essential collection of stories about immigration, broken dreams, Los Angeles gang members, Latin American families, and other tales of high stakes journeys, from the MacArthur "genius" and award-winning author of War by Candlelight and At Night We Walk in Circles.

Migration. Betrayal. Family secrets. Doomed love. Uncertain futures. In Daniel Alarc
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