Ernesto Mestre-Reed recommends
The Apartment (2023)
Ana Menéndez
"Ana Menendez should be donned the poet laureate of South Beach, but not the South Beach of Versace mansions and trendy nightclubs but a more human place where wanderers seek the kind of quotidian security that often proves so elusive for us all. The Apartment is a jewel of a novel that dares questions the very notion of what we consider home - a stunning meditation on the ghosts we leave behind and the phantoms that are perennially our companions in exile."
