Patricia Grace King — Those Who Vanish - with Anna Lapera — at Union Market

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Winner of the 2026 Drue Heinz Literature Prize Taking place during the decades long civil conflict, Those Who Vanish https://politics prose.com/book/9780822949237 follows the stories of Guatemalan citizens and North American expats set on a collision course by war. Across eight stories, martyrs and missionaries, guerrillas and gringos are thrown together amid political violence. A peace worker shelters a rebel fighter. An exile returns to confront the legacy of her parents' murders. The Virgin Mary begins appearing above an elderly woman's stove. Set in a world of daily disappearances, the collection addresses a vital question: when all certainties are snatched away, what remains of lives, of memory, of faith? Patricia Grace King grew up in North Carolina and has since…

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