Rubén Degollado on Writing a Family Story, 25 Years in the Making

Ursa Short Fiction by Ursa Story Company

Aug 23, 202355:47Arts

Deesha Philyaw and Dawnie Walton go in-depth with Rubén Degollado, author of the novel The Family Izquierdo, which started out as a short story collection about a single family. Degollado's story “The Seven Songs” was fe...

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