Family Lore

Catalina Infante / Michelle Mirabella

"Chilean writer Infante's penetrating English-language debut centers on a woman coping with the challenges of new motherhood while reflecting on her late mother. This slim and subtle work packs a stinging punch." --Publishers Weekly Motherhood is terrifying, thinks Laura, feeling small and helpless as she holds her newborn daughter. Instead of joy, she feels fear, and then ange...

Trias, Fernanda

Longlisted for the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD for Translated Literature • Named a BEST BOOK of 2024 by NPR, Esquire, Publishers Weekly, and ScreenRant • "The disconcerting familiarity of this strange, windswept world will haunt you." —Esquire A hair-raising, poetic novel about a woman and the people who depend on her as the world around them edges toward apocalypse.In a city ravaged b...

Bazterrica, Agustina

A fearsomely dark, incantatory new dystopia set in a post-apocalyptic convent from the author of viral sensation Tender is the Flesh 'Barbaric, brutal and utterly beautiful. The Unworthy is a searing haunt of a novel that I will never forget' LUCY ROSE, AUTHOR OF THE LAMB In the House of the Sacred Sisterhood, the unworthy live in fear of the Superior Sister's whip. Seething ...

Xochitl Gonzalez

REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK • New York Times bestselling author Xochitl Gonzalez delivers a mesmerizing novel about a first-generation Ivy League student who uncovers the genius work of a female artist decades after her suspicious deathA Most Anticipated Book of 2024: TIME, The Washington Post, Refinery 29, Barnes & Noble, Marie Clare, Real Simple, Entertainment Weekly, LA Daily New...

Bazterrica, Agustina / Moses, Sarah

The long-awaited new novel from the author of global sensation Tender Is the Flesh: a thrilling work of literary horror about a woman cloistered in a secretive, violent religious order, while outside the world has fallen into chaos.From her cell in a mysterious convent, a woman writes the story of her life in whatever she can find—discarded ink, dirt, and even her own blood. A ...

Labatut, Benjamín

Named One of the 10 Best Books of 2023 by The Washington Post and Publishers Weekly • One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2023 • A National Bestseller • A New York Times Editor's Choice pick • Nominated for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction"Captivating and unclassifiable, at once a historical novel and a philosophical foray . . . Labatut is a writer of thr...

Acevedo, Elizabeth

Elizabeth Acevedo, ganadora del National Book Award, regresa con su primera novela para un público adulto: una magnífica oda a la sabiduría del linaje femenino con un toque de fantasía caribeñaPor la sangre de las mujeres Marte corre una magia que les concede dones especiales. Creciendo en República Dominicana, y luego al migrar a Nueva York, las hermanas Flor, Matilde, Pastora...

Acevedo, Elizabeth

-La novela que volvió a revivir en los jóvenes la pasión por la poesía. -Best seller del New York Times. -Novela ganadora del National Book Award, el Michael L. Printz Award, el Boston Globe-Horn Award for Fiction, ell Pura Belpré Author Award y la medalla Carnegie. Xiomara Batista se siente ignorada e incapaz de ocultarse en Harlem. Desde que su cuerpo se volvió curvilíneo, a...

Acevedo, Elizabeth

"Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and she pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers--especially after she catche...

Acevedo, Elizabeth

Flor tiene un don: puede predecir el día que morirá alguien. Así que, cuando anuncia que quiere organizar un velatorio en vida ?una fiesta que reúna a su familia y a la comunidad para celebrar la larga vida que ha tenido?, sus hermanas se sorprenden. ¿Acaso Flor ha previsto su propia muerte o la de alguien más? ¿Tendrá otros motivos? En cualquier caso, se niega a decírselo a su...

Acevedo, Elizabeth

A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK!Shortlisted for The Center for Fiction 2023 First Novel PrizeFrom National Book Award-winning author Elizabeth Acevedo comes the story of one Dominican American family told through the voices of its womenFlor has a gift: she can predict, to the day, when someone will die. So when she decides she wants a living wake—a party to bring her fami...