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• Anita De Monte Laughs Last

  a Novel

  Gonzalez, Xochitl, 1977-

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  Elegantly written and constructed, Gonzalez's second novel brilliantly surpasses the promise of her popular debut... "Anita de Monte Laughs Last" is complex and cohesive, social criticism flowing organically from character and story. The novel is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Victim

  a Novel

  Boryga, Andrew,

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  In Andrew Boryga’s debut novel, a young writer creates a career for himself by exaggerating, or sometimes completely manufacturing, stories of tragedy... A thrilling work that requires a sense of openness and surrender, not only does this novel…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Bullet Swallower

  a Novel

  Gonzalez James, Elizabeth, 1982-

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  An ironic Mexico-set adventure novel has its swashbuckling cake and mocks it too. “The Bullet Swallower" is slyly ambitious, striving to pull off a trick nearly as tough as surviving a bullet to the head: to deliver old-fashioned, satisfying…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven

  Stories

  Reyes, Ruben, Jr.,

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  Reyes debuts with a scintillating collection of stories in which Salvadoran characters reckon with new technologies and the evils of capitalism... The volume is shot through with genuine pathos and astute social commentary, and Reyes shifts…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Volcano Daughters

  a Novel

  Balibrera, Gina Maria,

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  Balibrera's wrenching debut follows sisters Consuelo and Graciela after they're displaced by a massacre in El Salvador... With keen psychological insight, Balibrera portrays how the women, each of whom doesn't know the other has survived, make hard…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sun of Blood and Ruin

  Lares, Mariely,

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  A gender-flipped Zorro figure with magical powers struggles to find her path in an alternate Mexico a few decades after Cortés’ conquest... A bloody, intriguing bildungsroman with a fascinating plunge into the mythology of Mexico’s original…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Silence in Her Eyes

  a Novel

  Correa, Armando Lucas, 1959-

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  A woman with motion blindness becomes obsessed with a new neighbor whose husband, she's convinced, wants to kill her... It's not only a gripping, surreal examination of the effects of isolation on the mind but also a good old-fashioned thriller. Set…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Pink Slime

  a Novel

  Trías, Fernanda, 1976-

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  "I cannot stop a future that has already arrived," says the unnamed narrator of Trías's eerily calm tale about an environmental apocalypse... With her eerie and unnervingly probable plot, strong narrative voice, and focus on the small, beautiful…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Forgotten Sisters

  a Novel

  Pelayo, Cynthia,

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  This compelling mystery within a unique haunted-house story is told in gorgeous prose, with sympathetic, complicated characters who feel as if they could materialize off the page. VERDICT: Pelayo has given readers another can't-miss novel, marked by…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Sons of El Rey

  a Novel

  Espinoza, Alex, 1971-

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  Espinoza returns to fiction with the arresting story of an elderly wrestler's last days. Ernesto Vega is visited while in hospice care by his son, Freddy; his gay grandson, Julian; the ghost of his wife, Elena; and a manifestation of his lucha libre…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Cemetery of Untold Stories

  a Novel

  Alvarez, Julia,

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  The uplifting latest from Alvarez follows a 60-something author as she contends with the relationship between fiction and reality. [...] Throughout, Alvarez seamlessly melds magical realism with heartfelt character portraits. This brims with the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Great Divide

  a Novel

  Henríquez, Cristina, 1977-

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  The book’s ambition is undeniably valuable: This is about the intimate lives of [the workers who built the Panama Canal] who are often forgotten, dismissed, and willing to sacrifice body and soul to provide a better life for their loved ones... By…Read moreRead more of this annotation