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''Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club'' is a collection of short stories by Benjamin Alire Sáenz, published in 2012 by Cinco Puntos Press. The book compiles seven short stories, all set in the Hispanic/Latino community in El Paso, Texas in the United States and its neighbouring city of Juárez, Chihuahua in Mexico.〔("Vibrant 'Club' Links Two Countries In Award-Winning Book" ). NPR, April 30, 2013.〕 The Kentucky Club, a real-life bar in Juárez, appears in all seven stories as a linking motif.〔〔("‘Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club’ by Benjamin Alire Sáenz" ). Lambda Literary Foundation, May 31, 2013.〕 In addition, all seven stories touch in some way on themes of survival, of trying to live through pain, grief and loss and of the struggle to find and maintain love, both within the protagonists' birth families and in their sexual or romantic relationships.〔 Several also touch on the outbreak of violent crime that engulfed Juárez in the 1990s, and the ways in which that fractured the interrelated cross-border culture of the two cities. ==Awards== The book won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 2013,〔("Book of short stories wins PEN/Faulkner prize" ). Associated Press, March 19, 2013.〕 making Sáenz the first Latino writer ever to win the award,〔("El Paso author Benjamin Alire Sáenz wins PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction" ). ''El Paso Times'', March 19, 2013.〕 and also won a Lambda Literary Award in the Gay Fiction category at the 2013 Lambda Literary Awards.〔("25th annual Lambda Literary Award winners announced" ). ''LGBT Weekly'', June 4, 2013.〕 It was also named at a 2014 Stonewall Honor Book by the American Library Association.〔("2014 Stonewall Book Awards Announced" ). American Library Association, January 28, 2014.〕
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