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A Passing West: Essays from the Borderlands BN_Top_100 There was the optimistic JewishWinner of the Pen Diamondstein Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. Essays on the west and the Chicano movement, by one of its literary vanguards. 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