Claire Jiménez's "What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez" wins PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

Claire Jiménez's novel "What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez" has won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Set in New York City, the book explores a Puerto Rican family's search for a missing girl. The $15,000 award was announced on 15 March and lauded Jiménez's "nuanced, humorous, and human" character work and language deployment. Previous winners include Philip Roth, Ann Patchett, and Deesha Philyaw.