Spring 2025 Latin Books

This novel about a mother and a son is told in two deadlines. He began in 1970 with holder Gloria while she was preparing to attend a real concert where Argentine singer Sandro became the first Latin American to perform at Madison Square Garden. Five decades later, his son reflects on the ways in which the time he spent in New York reflects the experience of his mother there. History takes us from New York to Colombia and Miami and traces the way in which the choices made in young people can have an impact on future generations.

This book rings SO juicy! May Iverson, known by the name of Mother May that I am of his disciples (Barf), built a big empire influencer who makes videos of herself and her five mixed daughters when they were children. But these girls have all grown now, and it turns out that the merchant of the childhood of your offspring can really come back to bite you in the ass. May’s young married husband died, and his manor was burnt down to hide the crime, but who is responsible? This exploration of culture, race, gender, sexuality and the class of influence feels in time, and I can’t help but feel that we will see an influx of real versions of this type of history.

Associated side note: the Hulu documentary Devil in the family About influencer Ruby Franke is a deeply overwhelming but excellent watch.

Brielle likes to cook, but taking care of her sick chronic mother prevented her from continuing her culinary dreams. Then her mother suddenly loses her job and Brielle decides to put her skills at work to help join both ends. Families rich in richness for which she cooks are obsessed with her dishes, perfectly ignoring that the secret ingredient of Brielle is … human flesh. This story is inspired by Haitian zombie tradition (I said there would be zombies) and this cover is the chief’s kiss (zombie).

When the drought forces the Tewa people of the high city of Puye to leave the place where they called at home for 100 generations, they rebuild and form an agricultural colony in Adobe called singing Water Village. Here, three generations of Tewa women – Blue Water, North Star and Butterfly – live for years in harmony with Earth. But in 1598, the peace they so carefully cultivated was destroyed by Spanish invaders, and North Star was separated from his little daughter during a cruel and brutal raid. Through these three stories of women and three other generations of Tewa women, we get a family saga during the first 100 years of Spanish colonization in what is now new-mexic.

I will never leave the chance to tell you when our queen of magic realism will have a new book. This opens in San Francisco of the 19th century, where a nun gives birth to a little girl named Emilia del Valle. She grew up to be a self -sufficient and independent young woman with a passion for writing, writing fiction under the name of a man’s pen for a while before deciding to pursue a career in journalism. This decision will finally take her to Chile where she is assigned, with a journalist named Will, to cover the imminent civil war. There, she meets her distant father, the Chilean aristocrat who abandoned her mother before her birth, and finds herself face to face with the violent conflict heartbreaking Chile.

You cannot charge a book like Mexican Gothic encounter The brilliant And expect me to become wild. In 1923 in Colombia, Antonia and her family settled in a large mansion which is above a legendary waterfall. Of course, it is haunted and every night they spend there, there are nightmares, but they stay until the tragedy strikes and Antonia’s mother falls into the waterfall until her death. Antonia’s father is destroyed by sorrow (naturally) but tries to burn the house With Antonia still in (Guey, Te Pasas). Three years later, Antonia returns to the house that haunted her dreams when she is converted into a chic hotel, a trip that sets up a lot of old feelings, suspicions and fragmented memories that make her mother’s circumstances question. Give. he. has. Me.

This important work of the author of Cantoras is an oral story of a generation of old trans and non -compliant to the genre. It is a collection of testimonies of 20 alumni, featuring stories of resilience, community, loss, found family and ordinary and extraordinary experiences to live fiercely in a world hostile to its very existence. The more I get older, the more I realize which privilege it is to have ancients to tell their stories, which did not allow themselves so many marginalized people, especially in the LGBTQIA +community. It’s the one I will take my time with.

I am very in the grip of the third season of Yellow JacketsSo this horror novel there has stung my interest when I saw it described as Yellow Jackets encounter The Walking Dead. Flora is a teenager in a suburb of Los Angeles leading a group of survivors on a trip through the apocalypse after a global epidemic of a mutation in rabies that transforms people into very violent zombies. She and her brother are still alive, but their mom is dead and their father is missing. They decide that their best chance of survival is to go to the cabin in northern California in which they used to spend a vacation, hoping to see their father – if they can survive.

When I saw this book describes as “a fun and attractive rom-com on a pact between friends who go wrong when one of them suddenly decides to get married”, my first reaction was to shout and go: “Is it My best friend’s wedding But with brown people?! “It is not exactly a good thing (Julia, Girl, love you, your hair was and are the best friends who made a pact at university. It will mean convincing husband that the guy she got on is not.