Graywolf Press. 2026. 264 pages.Pulitzer Prize–winning author Cristina Rivera Garza desperately wants to paint for us the tortured lives of her grandparents and great-grandparents who…

New York. Catapult. 2025. 238 pages.The Dance and the Fire’s protagonists can’t quite trust their eyes. This is in part a product of their environment: Cuern…

San Francisco. Two Lines Press. 2025. 178 pages.The reach and rustle of voice is inescapable, as it should be. The question is, How many voices temper personal and worldviews as the m…

Minneapolis. Coffee House Press. 2018. 232 pages.Part family history, part lost love story, and mostly memoirish novel, Verónica Gerber Bicecci’s experiment with fragmented narrative augmented by illu…

San Francisco. Two Lines Press. 2017. 256 pages.Elvira Navarro’s latest novel hinges largely on two questions: How do we know we’re being told the truth, and how does that lack of certainty influence…

Minneapolis. Coffee House Press. 2015. 195 pages.The Story of My Teeth is the third book of Mexican-born Valeria Luiselli, who lives in New York City. Except for the last chapter, the story i…