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Mayra: A Novel Grace Byron moving Reuben out of theAn eerie, hypnotic debut about friendship, desire, and memory set against the sultry backdrop of Florida's swamplands. A mesmerizing, hallucinatory adrenaline rush of a novel. Claire Luchette, author of Agatha of Little Neon LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE It's been years since Ingrid has heard from her childhood best friend, Mayra, a fearless rebel who fled their hometown of Hialeah, a Cuban neighborhood just west of Miami,