A Passing West

Winner of the Pen/Diamondstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. Essays on the west, the Chicano movement, by one of its founders. Winner of the 2025 PEN/Diamondstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay A unique voice in American fiction, Dagoberto Gilb is also a singular writer of personal and journalistic essays. In A Passing West he casts a penetrating gaze upon the culture and history of the Southwest, Mexican American identity, and his own family. Gilb has a forceful message