If They Come for Us: Four Fierce and Tender Debuts

Fatimah Asghar’s If They Come for Us grapples with questions of sexuality, race, violence, and healing. Marcelo Hernandez Castillo examines the fallout of immigration, the illusion of the American dream, and the latent anxieties of living in a queer brown undocumented body in Cenzontle. Tiana Clark delves in to the physical and psychic traumas of the South through personal and public histories in I Can’t Talk about the Trees Without the Blood. In Citizen Illegal, José Olivarez takes on complex issues of race, gender, class, and immigration between Mexico and America.

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