COMING OF AGE AMID POLITICAL UNREST – FICTION

GINA MARÍA BALIBRERA’s The Volcano Daughters: A Novel introduces Graciela, a young Indigenous girl who meets the sister she never knew, who has been claimed as an oracle for a rising dictator. When genocide strikes, they believe each other to be dead and escape across the globe, reinventing themselves until fate reunites them. Inspired by true events, JOY CASTRO’s One Brilliant Flame: A Novel follows six young friends in late 1800s Key West, Florida, during the height of the cigar industry. As the friends’ complicated lives intertwine, the story explores encroaching peril in the face of insurrection, sacrifice, and inextinguishable hope. In MYRIAM J. A. CHANCY’s Village Weavers, Gertie and Sisi, born on opposite ends of the socioeconomic ladder in 1940s Haiti, begin a childhood friendship that continues into young womanhood – until a deathbed revelation ripples through their families, tearing them apart.

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