Hispanic Heritage Month 2023: Fiction for Adults
Check out these recent releases from authors of Hispanic or Latine background! (Created September 2023)
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When Trying to Return Home
A short story collection spanning a century of Black American and Afro-Latino life in Puerto Rico, Pittsburgh, Louisiana, Miami, and beyond-and an evocative meditation on belonging, the meaning of home, and how we secure freedom on our own terms.
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This Is Not Miami
Set in and around the Mexican city of Veracruz, This Is Not Miami delivers a series of devastating stories-spiraling from real events-that bleed together reportage and the author's rich and rigorous imagination. These narrative nonfiction pieces probe deeply into the motivations of murderers and misfits, into their desires and circumstances, forcing us to understand them-and even empathize-despite our wish to simply label them monsters.
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Love of My Lives
Madi RamÃrez has it all—a thriving career she loves, a successful boyfriend, and a wedding to plan—when he finally proposes. So why does she feel like there is something missing?
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The Apartment
In the Helena, an art deco apartment building that has witnessed the changing face of South Miami Beach for 70 years, new resident Lana, a mysterious woman struggling with her own past, will be either healed or overwhelmed by its residents.
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Silver Nitrate
Helping a cult horror director shoot the missing scene from his magic film that was never finished to lift a curse, sound editor Montserrat and her best friend Tristan start seeing strange things and must unravel the mystery of this film and the obscure occultist who once roamed their city.
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God Went Like That
Federal agent Reyna Rodriguez reports on a real-life nuclear reactor meltdown and accidents that occurred in 1959, 1964, and 1968 at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory. An infamous research and development complex in California’s Simi Valley, the lab was eventually dismantled by the US government—but not before it created a toxic legacy of contamination and numerous cancer clusters.
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A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens
When Alexi, the debt collector who has been hounding him for years, asks him for spiritual help in exchange for forgiving his debt, widower Hugo Contreras finds the job to be more than he bargained for when memories from his past collide with Alexi's demons in an explosive climax.
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The Country of Toó
Raised on his wits on the streets of Central America, the Cobra, a young debt collector and gang enforcer, has never had the chance to discern between right and wrong, until he’s assigned the murder of Polo, a prominent human rights activist—and his friend.
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An American Immigrant
Twenty-five-year-old Melanie Carvajal, a hardworking but struggling journalist for a Miami newspaper, loves her Colombian mother but regularly ignores her phone calls, frustrated that she never quite takes the time to understand Melanie's life. When the opportunity arises for a big assignment that might save her flagging career, Melanie follows the story to the land of her mother's birth.
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The Sun and the Void
When Reina arrives at Aguila Manor, her heart stolen from her chest, she's on the verge of death -- until her estranged grandmother, a dark sorceress in the Don's employ, intervenes. Indebted to a woman she never knew, and smitten with the upper-caste daughter of the house, Celeste, Reina will do anything to earn -- and keep -- the family's favor.
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