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Centered around the 1986 attempt on the life of Augusto Pinochet, an event that changed Chile forever, My Tender Matador is one of the most explosive, controversial, and popular novels to have been published in that country in decades. It is spring 1986 in...

A hallucinatory thriller about a failing demon's search for a new host in post-dictatorship Santo Domingo Asmodeus, a millennia-old demon, has inhabited Rudy, a once-legendary Dominican rock star, for decades. But in 1992, the demon's powers begin to fade. What follows is a desperate...

From Dusk Till Dawn meets The Thing in this debut horror novel, where a group of friends must confront questions of identity, aging, and desire during a vampire infestation in an isolated Californian desert. The limited edition first printing includes arresting sprayed edges, designed...

Named one of the "Best Books of 1987" by Library JournalSelected by Utne Reader as part of its "Alternative Canon" in 1998One of Hungry Mind Review's "Best 100 Books of the 20th Century"Rooted in Gloria Anzaldúuacute;a's experience as a Chicana, a lesbian, an activist,...

In the dynamic tradition of the BreakBeat Poets anthology, The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNEXT celebrates the embodied narratives of Latinidad. Poets speak from an array of nationalities, genders, sexualities, races, and writing styles, staking a claim to our cultural and civic space. Like...

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURYThe critically acclaimed debut from the National Book Award-winning author of Blackouts.In this award-winning, groundbreaking novel, Justin Torres plunges us into the chaotic heart of one family, the intense bonds of three...

Winner of the National Book AwardWinner of the California Book AwardWinner of Tournament of Books Out in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man tends to a dying soul, someone he once knew briefly but who has haunted the edges...

A generative, genre-bending collection of nineteen intertwined stories by legendary writer, theorist, and activist Gloria E. Anzaldúa.Finalist for the 2026 PROSE Award in the Literature CategoryFinalist for the 2025 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the LGBTQ+ Fiction categoryBest known for Borderlands/La...

"A masterpiece of supernatural horror."--The Washington Post"An enchanting, shattering, once-in-a-lifetime reading experience."--The New York Times (Editors' Choice)The Quietus's #1 Work of Horror Fiction of the 21st Century So Far One of Reactor Magazine's Most Iconic Speculative Fiction Books of the 21st CenturyOne of Collider's...

Postcolonial Love Poem is an anthem of desire against erasure. Natalie Diaz's brilliant second collection demands that every body carried in its pages-bodies of language, land, rivers, suffering brothers, enemies, and lovers-be touched and held as beloveds. Through these poems, the wounds inflicted by...

¡Cuéntamelo! Oral Histories by LGBT Latino Immigrants began as a cover story for SF Weekly, and, eventually in 2014 with local grant support, Lopera was able to self publish. The first edition of 300 books sold out within a week. In addition to beautiful...

A poignant novel in verse in which, after a life-changing accident, one girl finds her way back to her life's passion. From the Newbery Honor-winning author of Iveliz Explains It All. A BOOKLIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - SHORTLISTED FOR THE LAMBDA LITERARY...

"There are fevers you still wish to forget," writes Eduardo Martínez-Leyva, but how fortunate for the rest of us that he remembers. These tenderly crafted autobiographical poems pierce through to the heart of pain, love, loss, and the ongoing search for salvation--or at least...

The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse has the whole village investigating the murder. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, with each unreliable narrator lingering on new details, new acts of depravity or brutality, Melchor extracts some tiny...

National Book Award finalist Mónica Ojeda returns with a blazing, psychedelic novel about girlhood, violence, and the loss of innocence. In the near future, best friends Noa and Nicole flee their home in Guayaquil, Ecuador to attend the Solar Noise Festival, a week-long, retro-futuristic...

A debut collection that examines US-Cuba tensions, transnational Black identity, and revolutionary gatherings Kyle Carrero Lopez's electrifying debut collection centers three interconnected forces: social life, US-Cuba relations, and the lives of Black people in the United States and Cuba. Through familial, satirical, and geopolitical...

"Full of heart and wisdom, Daughters of Latin America sheds a brilliant light on Latine and Caribbean women writers across time, space, languages, and genres."--World Literature TodaySpanning time, styles, and traditions, a dazzling literary anthology of essential works from 140 Latine writers, scholars, and...

In a spicy, contemporary fantasy novel, private investigator Linda Villanueva runs a detective agency for troubled souls using her mystical powers--all while wrestling with her own heart. Cebo Campbell, author of Sky Full of Elephants, ​calls it​ "Lush, provocative, and deeply human." AN EVIL...

Junot Diaz's critically acclaimed collection Drown meets Janet Mock's Emmy-winning series Pose, "in this remarkable debut...capturing the heartbreak of queer youth, a woman's rebellion against the confines of motherhood, and, above all, the pain and power of friendship" (Adam Haslett, bestselling author of Imagine...

NOW A NEW MAJOR MOTION PICTURE - In an Argentine prison, two unlikely cellmates form a bond as they share stories and beliefs, despite their differences. "Extremely moving . . . Puig weaves his own shimmering web around a classic theme." ―Newsweek In an...

From legendary activist and Pose actress Cecilia Gentili comes the groundbreaking debut of a transgender Latina childhood that re-orders the field of LGBTQ+ memoirWinner of the 2023 ALA Stonewall Book Award Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award - As heard on NPR's Latino USA - Finalist...

A New York Times-Bestseller!Welcome to The Sunbearer Trials, where teen semidioses compete in a series of challenges with the highest of stakes, in this electric new Mexican-inspired fantasy from Aiden Thomas, the New York Times bestselling author of Cemetery Boys. "Only the most powerful...

For the first time ever, a selected poetry collection from Emanuel Xavier, renowned LGBTQ poet and one of the Latinx community's treasures.When he first emerged as a Nuyorican Poets Café slam poet in the 1990s, Emanuel Xavier quickly took his place as one of...

"Cuadros died of AIDS in 1996, two years after chronicling the disease in City of God, a book of poems and stories about queer Los Angeles. His belated follow-up takes the same form, with the same bracing urgency."--The New York Times "Without doubt one...

East L.A. punk pioneer Alice Bag tells the raw, feministmemoir of survival, music, and the birth of West Coast punk.Violence Girl is the memoir of Alicia Armendariz--better known as AliceBag--frontwoman of The Bags and one of the earliest voices of the Los Angelespunk scene....

An epic novel of a mother and daughter wrestling with the aftermath of a murder, set against the backdrop of a tightknit, working-class barrio in Puerto Rico--from the Whiting Award-winning author Jaquira Díaz. When Maricarmen meets Rey el Cantante, beloved small-time Robin Hood and...

A translated collection from one of the defining poetic voices in Cuban and Mexican literature. Old Music Island is a sensuous, dreamlike poetry collection by Odette Alonso, a leading voice in contemporary Cuban and Mexican literature. Born in Santiago de Cuba and living in...

"Pulling back the curtain in Hollywood . . . twisty enough to tie you in knots, exciting enough to keep you guessing, and smart enough to make you think."--Ilana Berry, author of The Peacock and the SparrowA Shadow of Jaguars by D.C. Frost is...

She stole her brother's ashes.Now she has six hours to say goodbye.It's been a month since Javi died, and fourteen-year-old Eva is done pretending a dusty urn is enough. On the last night of the Los Angeles County Fair, she steals his ashes and...

In The House Has Teeth, award-winning poet Aldo Amparán offers a profound rumination on violence, trauma, and how the spaces meant to protect us can become the most insidious. How can we make sense of deep pain that was caused by an event we...

"A vibrant collection of confessional, polemical verses." -Kirkus ReviewsLove(ly) Child is a thought-provoking collection of poetry that delves into themes of identity, love, and self-discovery. Each poem is a journey into the complexities of the human experience navigating sensitive topics with honesty and vulnerability....

A Puerto Rican trans epic that blends poetic play and speculative fiction, by a Lambda Literary Award winner Algarabía follows Cenex, a trans being who narrates his life while navigating the stories told on his behalf. An inhabitant of a colony of Earth in...

Stepmotherland is a tour-de-force debut collection about coming of age, coming out, and coming to America.Winner of the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize, Stepmotherland, Darrel Alejandro Holnes's first full-length collection, is filled with poems that chronicle and question identity, family, and allegiance. This Central American...

A rich, accomplished, intensely intimate collection with 2 full sections of new poems bookending Blanco's selections from his 5 previous volumes "An engineer, poet, Cuban American . . . his poetry bridges cultures and languages--a mosaic of our past, our present, and our future--reflecting...

Collaboratively researched account of TransLatina agency and survival strategies in the face of structural violenceFrom the shimmering, defiant world of TransLatina beauty pageants to the persistent everyday violence of racism, gender norms, and economic precarity, the testimonios in Braving All Borders offer compelling accounts...

"City of God is an unsparing account of devastation and empowerment in the age of AIDS. From the body's first mysterious eroticism to its final humiliation and pain, Gil Cuadros gives voice to both the beauty and sorrow of our common fate. His writing...

Memory Mambo describes the life of Juani Casas, a 25-year-old Cuban-born American lesbian who manages her family's laundromat in Chicago while trying to cope with family, work, love, sex, and the weirdness of North American culture. Achy Obejas's writing is sharp and mordantly funny....

Winner of The Publishing Triangle's 2026 Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry Just in time for Hispanic Heritage Month comes another brilliant bilingual poetry collection by Achy Obejas--a meditation on being a queer mom to 2 sons These 44 prose poems, artful yet accessible,...

Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book.Brand-new stories by: Leonardo Padura, Pablo Medina, Alex Abella, Arturo Arango, Lea Aschkenas,...

Achy Obejas writes stories about uprooted people. Some, like herself, are Latino immigrants and lesbians; others are men (gay and straight), people with AIDS, addicts, people living marginally, just surviving. As omniscient narrator to her characters' lives, Obejas generously delves into her own memories...

An intimate self-portrait of one of the most renowned Mexican artists of the twentieth century, this beautiful book is "a visual document, engaging the eye with a volcanic profusion of penned-and-painted imagery" (New York Times). Published in its entirety, Frida Kahlo's amazing illustrated journal...

Chabelita's hopes come true when Jimena, the new student whose eyes sparkle like stars, sits next to her. The more they learn about each other, the more they like each other and the more time they spend together. When Chabelita shares her special bow...

Chabelita's hopes come true when Jimena, the new student whose eyes sparkle like stars, sits next to her. The more they learn about each other, the more they like each other and the more time they spend together. When Chabelita shares her special bow...

Longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature!A New York Times Bestseller!A YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Top Ten pick! "Goundbreaking." -Entertainment Weekly A trans boy determined to prove his gender to his traditional Latinx family summons a ghost who refuses...

A darkly comic memoir-in-essays about the scam of the American Dream and doing whatever it takes to survive in the Sunshine State--from the award-winning author of High-Risk Homosexual "Relatable, funny and deeply heartfelt, this memoir is one not to miss."--Today "Edgar Gomez is a...

Latin music fans--from lovers of Bad Bunny to Selena, Juan Gabriel to Villano Antillano, and Romeo Santos to Shakira--will love Muévelo, a compelling look at the impact of Latin music in our lives, culture, and history. Podcast hosts of Radio Menea, Miriam Zoila Pérez...

In the dynamic tradition of the BreakBeat Poets anthology, The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNEXT celebrates the embodied narratives of Latinidad. Poets speak from an array of nationalities, genders, sexualities, races, and writing styles, staking a claim to our cultural and civic space. Like...

In The Large Glass, celebrated Mexican innovator Mario Bellatin now examines his most complicated subject; himself. Featuring three different autobiographies, The Large Glass challenges the absurd and hubristic project of the autobiography itself -- how can any writer account for himself in a way...

F R A G M E N T S premiered as a reading at Becket Arts Center, Becket, Massachusetts on World Aids Day 2025. Written and performed by Jim Petosa, his one-man show recounts the story of a couple navigating their mystical, transformative, and...

"Acevedo has written the impossible: an Odyssey for the Cuban 20th century."--Junot DiazA sweeping, choral portrait of a man as seen through the eyes of those who loved him, feared him, and were betrayed by him.Cages is the story of Felix--a zookeeper in Cuba...