num_pages: 472
description: The Long Night of White Chickens is a novel truly born of two worlds: It is the story of Roger Graetz, raised in a Boston suburb by an aristocratic 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 while running an orphanage, Roger returns to uncover the truth of her death. There he is reunited with Luis Moya, a childhood friend, and together they attempt to chronicle Flor's life story, a quest that will have unexpected, and unforgettable repercussions.
language: English
title: The Long Night of White Chickens
titlecomplete: The Long Night of White Chickens
genres: Adult Fiction, Fiction, Latin American, Novels, Literature, Literary Fiction, American, Crime
ratings_count: 521
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction
publisher: Grove Press