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Alejandro Puyana’s own debut novel, Freedom Is a Feast (Little, Brown), is set in Chávez-era Venezuela and owes a debt to all these books. His work has appeared in Tin House, American Short Fiction, and American Scholar, among others, and his story “The Hands of Dirty Children” was selected by Curtis Sittenfeld for Best American Short Stories 2020. A native of Venezuela, he lives with his wife and daughter in Austin, Texas.