Fiction - Hispanic & Latino

The first novel to appear in English by one of the most talked-about and critically acclaimed writers of new Mexican fiction. From a psychoanalyst's couch, the narrator looks back on her bizarre childhood. Born with an abnormality in her eye and a family intent...

A stunning novel of hopes and dreams, guilt and love--a book that offers a resonant new definition of what it means to be American and "illuminates the lives behind the current debates about Latino immigration" (The New York Times Book Review). When fifteen-year-old Maribel...

A laugh-out-loud story with heart, based on true events about one boy's trip to the loo and learning that everyone has accidents sometimes. A father is just trying to take his kids for a refreshing swim in the pool, but every time they jump...

Winner of: The Pulitzer PrizeThe National Book Critics Circle AwardThe Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardThe Jon Sargent, Sr. First Novel PrizeA Time Magazine #1 Fiction Book of the Year One of The New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century One of the best...

Winner of: The Pulitzer PrizeThe National Book Critics Circle AwardThe Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardThe Jon Sargent, Sr. First Novel PrizeA Time Magazine #1 Fiction Book of the Year One of The New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century One of the best...

From the author of The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School, two best bros fake an engagement-but will their friendship survive? It's about time roommates Alejandro and Kenny get married. Or at least, that's what all their close friends and family think when they announce...

From the author of The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School, two best bros fake an engagement-but will their friendship survive? It's about time roommates Alejandro and Kenny get married. Or at least, that's what all their close friends and family think when they announce...

A "mesmerizing...wildly entertaining" (The Boston Globe) magical realism western in the vein of Cormac McCarthy meets Gabriel García Márquez, The Bullet Swallower follows a Mexican bandido as he sets off for Texas to rob a train, only to encounter a mysterious figure who has...

Culinary journalist Naomi Sinclair is cooking up a maelstrom of trouble upon her return to the blue waters of her native Saint Thomas. A new cozy mystery set in the US Virgin Islands, this charming amateur sleuth will enrapture readers of Joanne Fluke and...

Culinary journalist Naomi Sinclair is cooking up a maelstrom of trouble upon her return to the blue waters of her native Saint Thomas. A new cozy mystery set in the US Virgin Islands, this charming amateur sleuth will enrapture readers of Joanne Fluke and...

Great American novelist Julia Alvarez, bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, returns with a luminescent novel about storytelling that reads like an instant classic. "Only an alchemist as wise and sure as Alvarez...

Literary icon and great American novelist Julia Alvarez, bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, returns with a luminescent novel about storytelling that reads like an instant classic. "Only an alchemist as wise and...

The Chandelier, written when Lispector was only twenty-three, reveals a very different author from the college student whose debut novel, Near to the Wild Heart, announced the landfall of "Hurricane Clarice." Virginia and her cruel, beautiful brother, Daniel, grow up in a decaying country...

"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 WeeklyMotherhood is terrifying, thinks Laura, feeling small and helpless as she...

From Mexico's preeminent man of letters, "a Balzacian novel in nine masterly stories" (Vanity Fair) that explores the "uneven and painful meshing of two North american cultures" (Washington Post Book World). A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. A Los Angeles Times...

An NPR Books We Love selection for 2023 "An unforgettable read that should be at the top of every TBR list."--NPR In 1934, a luxury cruise becomes a fight for survival as two women's pasts collide on a round-trip voyage from New York to...

"The beautiful, horrible world of Mariana Enriquez, as glimpsed in The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, with its disturbed adolescents, ghosts, decaying ghouls, the sad and angry homeless of modern Argentina, is the most exciting discovery I've made in fiction for some time."--Kazuo Ishiguro,...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the bestselling author of Mexican Gothic and Velvet Was the Night comes a lavish historical drama reimagining of The Island of Doctor Moreau set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Mexico. "This is historical science fiction at its best:...

From a major new talent in Latin American literature comes a tale of cultures, languages, spirits, and the natural world on the brink of transformation"Of all the happy, hermitic lands, the Guayrá was the jewel."So begins this polyphonic wonder of a novel set in...

Author: Alex Z. SalinasPublisher: Flowersong PressPublished: 10/23/2025Pages: 318Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.71dISBN: 9781963245684About the AuthorSalinas, Alex Z.: - Alex Z. Salinas is the author of four volumes of poetry and a book of stories. His poetry collections include WARBLES (2019);...