Reviews

Using multiple perspectives and an excitingly jumbled timeline, Deón crafts a narrative that is equal parts coming-of-age and epic historical fiction.

In her debut novel, The Boy with a Bird in His Chest, Emme Lund celebrates queer joy through Owen Tanner’s journey to family, freedom, and love.

Fu paints us pictures of the monsters that loom in the distance of our 21st-century lives that are at times both abstract and clear as day.

A Snake Falls to Earth acts as a cautionary tale, warning readers of our potential to either intentionally or inadvertently eradicate entire species and cultures, but also offers hope for our ability to reverse the effects of such dramatic devastation.

Cruz makes clear the dire need to claim one’s place in class struggle and to work towards a communal negation that counteracts the assimilation to a culture that attempts to sweep so many under the rug of its system.

Some cuentos are downright terrifying, but by the end of this cuento, Higuera will have her readers believing in the mystifying and healing powers of storytelling.

The youth of the novel—much like the youth of our world—are tasked not with dying in an apocalypse, but with living in one.

[Wong] efficiently contrasts stillness and the movement of time as a parallel to the speaker’s telescope: all of the events of the past have led to slush she can carry—this messy identity.