<DIV>Winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, <I>The Long Night of White Chickens</I> marked the brilliant debut of Francisco Goldman’s internationally acclaimed writing career.<BR><BR>The Long Night of White Chickens is a novel born of two worlds: It is the story of Roger Graetz, raised in a Boston suburb by a patrician Guatemalan mother, and his relationship with Flor de Mayo, the beautiful young Guatemalan orphan sent by his grandmother to live with his family as a maid. When, years later in the 1980s, Flor is murdered in Guatemala, Roger returns to uncover the truth of her death. There he is reunited with Luis Moya, a childhood friend, and together they venture on a quest into Flor’s life that will have unexpected, and unforgettable, repercussions.<BR><BR></DIV>