Hispanic Heritage Month 2024: Recent Fiction for Adults
Hispanic Heritage Month honors the contributions and influence of Hispanic and Latine Americans to the history, culture, and achievements of the United States, and is celebrated from September 15 to October 15 annually. Check out these recent releases from authors of Hispanic or Latine background! Annotations from NoveList, unless otherwise attributed. (Created September 2024)
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The Cemetery of Untold Stories
When celebrated writer Alma Cruz inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, she turns it into a place to bury her untold stories--literally. She creates a graveyard for manuscript drafts and revisions and the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life and who still haunt her. Alma wants her characters to rest in peace, but they have other ideas, and the cemetery becomes a mysterious sanctuary for their true narratives.
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Cross-stitch
When her childhood friend Citlali dies in a tragic accident, needlecrafter Mila sifts through her old scrapbooks, reflecting on their shared youth for their first time as a new wife and mother, wondering if she missed the signs that Citlali needed help.
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Victim
A hustler from a family of hustlers, Javier Perez, after college graduation, writes a viral essay embellishing his life story, which lands him a gig at a legendary magazine, but when his childhood best friend is released from prison, Javi offers to cut him in on the deal in exchange for his silence.
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American Abductions
Enter a near-future US whose omnipresence of data-harvesting and algorithms has enabled the mass incarceration and deportation of Latin Americans--regardless of citizenship. After their father is abducted by immigration officials and deported to Colombia, Ada and her sister Eva are left to contend with a US as all-seeing as it is hostile. As adults, Ada remains in San Francisco while Eva joins their father, tending him in his ailing health. When his condition worsens, Eva asks Ada to come see them: a nearly impossible feat, given the United States' restrictions on Latin Americans' movements. Ada must come to terms with the violence of American society and the grief of lost community.
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Immortal Pleasures
Hundreds of years ago, she was known as La Malinche: a Nahua woman who translated for the conquistador Cortés. In the centuries since, her name has gone down in infamy as a traitor. But no one ever found out what happened to La Malinche after Cortés destroyed her people. In the ashes of the empire, she was reborn as Malinalli, an immortal vampire. And she has become an avenger of conquered peoples, traveling the world to reclaim their stolen artifacts and return them to their homelands. But she has also been in search of something more, for this ancient vampire still has deeply human longings for pleasure and for love.
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Catalina
Harvard student Catalina Ituralde, who escaped death in Latin America, confronts her mysterious past and uncertain future as she approaches graduation, all while navigating the complexities of love and freedom.
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Say Hello to My Little Friend
Failed Pitbull impersonator Ismael--you can call him Izzy--might not be the Scarface type, but why should that keep him from trying? Growing up in Miami has shaped him into someone who dreams of being the King of the 305, with the money, power, and respect he assumes comes with it. After finding himself at the mercy of a cease-and-desist letter from Pitbull's legal team, Izzy embarks on an absurd quest to turn himself into a modern-day Tony Montana. What begins as Izzy's story turns into a super-saturated fever dream as sprawling and surreal as the Magic City, one as sharp as an iguana's claws, and as menacing as a killer whale's teeth.
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Isabel and the Rogue
When a daring Mexican heiress defies Victorian society to protect her country a British war hero makes it his new mission to protect her.
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The Sons of El Rey
A timeless, epic novel about a family of luchadores contending with forbidden love and secrets in Mexico City, Los Angeles and beyond.
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Malas
When her beloved grandmother passes away, 14-year-old Lulu is drawn to the glamorous stranger who crashed the funeral and their unexpected kinship picks at the secrets of Lulu's family and a curse that reverberates across generation as one woman must make peace with the past and one girl must embrace her future.
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