Last Updated: October 26, 2024
The Volcano Daughters
by Gina Maria Balibrera
In El Salvador in 1923, Graciela grows up on a volcano in a community of indentured indigenous women, until at nine years old, she’s chosen to be an oracle for a rising dictator. In the capital ,she meets Consuelo, the sister she’s never known, stolen away before Graciela was born. Years pass and terror rises as the economy flatlines, Graciela comes to understand the horrific vision that she’s unwittingly helped shape just as genocide strikes the community that raised her. She and Consuelo barely escape, each believing the other to be dead. They run, crossing the globe, reinventing their lives, and ultimately reconnecting at the least likely moment.
Clean
by Alia Trabucco Zarán
A young girl has died and the family’s maid is being interrogated. She must tell the whole story before arriving at the girl’s death.
One Year Ago in Spain
by Eveyn Skye
Claire Walker has always had her life in perfect order, yet the one thing she cannot seem to find is that perfect love to complete it. Until fate drops Matías de León into her life. Matías is a Spanish artist who is everything that Claire is not: free-spirited and creative, chaos to her order. She falls for him, hard-and he for her. A year later, however, Claire begins to find herself questioning everything about this relationship. Then tragedy strikes while Matías is visiting family in Spain, leaving him gravely wounded in a Madrid hospital. And when Claire drops everything to race to his side, she finds herself the only one who can see and talk to Matías’s soul, detached from his comatose body. But that soul has no memories of his year in New York, of her, or of their relationship. Claire soon realizes that, in order to lure Matías back to his body, she will have to convince him to fall in love with her all over again.
América del Norte
by Nicolás Medina Mora
Sebastián lived a childhood of privilege in Mexico City. Now in his twenties, he has a degree from Yale, an American girlfriend, and a slot in the University of Iowa’s MFA program. But Sebastián’s life is shaken by the Trump administration’s restrictions on immigrants, his mother’s terminal cancer, the cracks in his relationship with his American girlfriend, and his father’s forced resignation at the hands of Mexico’s new president.
Season of the Swamp
by Yuri Herrera
New Orleans, 1853. A young exile named Benito Juárez disembarks at a fetid port city at the edge of a swamp. Years later, he will become the first indigenous head of state in the postcolonial Americas, but now he is as anonymous and invisible as any other migrant to the roiling and alluring city of New Orleans.