Winner of the 2026 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection, "Guatemalan Rhapsody" is vibrant, poignant, unflinching, and immersive, and offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of an ever-changing country, the people who claim it as home, and those who no longer do. Across this collection of stories, Lemus’s characters test their loyalty to family, community, and country, illuminating the ties that both connect us and constrain us. Revealing the places where beauty, desperation, love, violence, and hope exist simultaneously, Jared Lemus’s debut establishes him as a major new literary voice. Be part of the conversation—join us and the author on Microsoft Teams: https://queenslib.org/4yF5