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Literary Fiction - 29
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  • Season of the Swamp
    Yuri Herrera
    Hardcover: 10/01/2024
     
    A major new novel set in nineteenth-century New Orleans by the author of Signs Preceding the End of the World....
  • A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens
    Raul Palma
    Paperback: 10/01/2024
     
    A genre-bending debut with a fiercely political heart, A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens explores the weight of ...
  • Where There Was Fire
    John Manuel Arias
    Paperback: 09/17/2024
     
    A lush and lyrical debut novel about a Costa Rican family wrestling with a deadly secret, from rising literary...
  • There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven
    Ruben Reyes
    Hardcover: 08/06/2024
     
    An electrifying debut story collection about Central American identity that spans past, present, and future ...
  • The Making of Yolanda la Bruja
    Lorraine Avila
    Paperback: 07/09/2024
     
    Elizabeth Acevedo has said that reading Lorraine Avila feels like an "uppercut to the senses." You've never ...
  • Pink Slime
    Fernanda Trias
    Hardcover: 07/02/2024
     
    Winner of the Uruguayan National Literature Prize for Fiction, the Bartolomé-Hidalgo Fiction Prize, and ...
  • Craft
    Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil
    Ananda Lima
    Hardcover: 06/18/2024
     
    Strange, intimate, haunted, and hungry―Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil is an intoxicating and ...

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