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Love Can't Feed You (2024)
Cherry Lou Sy
"A rollercoaster of emotions and an assault on the senses. Through the lives of one family, Sy has distilled the immigrant experience down to its most painful and traumatic moments, in the process writing an intelligent, wide ranging gut-punch of a debut. Queenie, the protagonist, is the very personification of instinct, curiosity, dislocation, and adaptation. This is a New York book that captures well what happens when life becomes about survival more than living."
Blackouts (2023)
Justin Torres
"Blackouts is a beautiful collage of a novel. Justin Torres quenches a thirst one scene, one flashback, one image at a time."
Candelaria (2023)
Melissa Lozada-Oliva
"Candelaria is a thrilling ride. Melissa Lozada-Oliva captures with deft humor the lives of a matriarch and her brood of daughters and granddaughters as they survive addiction, patriarchy, capitalism, natural disasters, and zombies. Reading Lozada-Oliva's work is like attending a family reunion, one where you hang in the backyard smoking a joint with your favorite cousin. Melissa is a smart, compassionate, and hilarious writer. I will read anything she writes."
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