Este libro es para celebrar el paso de Liliana Rivera Garza por la tierra y para decirle que, claro que sí, lo vamos a tirar. Al patriarcado lo vamos a tirar. <<El 16 de julio de 1990, Liliana Rivera Garza, mi hermana, fue víctima de un feminicidio. Era una muchacha de 20 años, estudiante de arquitectura. Tenía años tratando de terminar su relación con un novio de la preparatoria que insistía en no dejarla ir. Unas cuantas semanas antes de la tragedia, Liliana por fin tomó una decisión definitiva: en lo más crudo del invierno había descubierto que en ella, como bien lo había dicho Albert Camus, había un invencible verano. Lo dejaría atrás. Empezaría una nueva vida. Haría una maestría y después un doctorado; viajaría a Londres. >>La decisión de él fue que ella no tendría una vida sin él. Hace apenas un año decidí abrir las cajas donde depositamos las pertenencias de mi hermana. Su voz atravesó el tiempo y, como la de tantas mujeres desaparecidas y ultrajadas en México, demandó justicia. >>El invencible verano de Liliana es una excavación en la vida de una mujer brillante y audaz que careció, como nosotros mismos, como todos los demás, del lenguaje necesario para identificar, denunciar y combatir la violencia sexista y el terrorismo de pareja que caracteriza a tantas relaciones patriarcales>>. ¡Enorme! ¡Ojalá millones lo lean! Francisco Goldman, autor de Monkey Boy, finalista del Premio Pulitzer de Ficción 2022 ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A haunting, unforgettable memoir about a beloved younger sister and the painful memory of her murder, from one of Mexico's greatest living writers (Jonathan Lethem). Can you enjoy yourself while you are in pain? The question, which is not new, arises over and over again during that eternity that is mourning. In the early hours of July 16, 1990, Liliana Rivera Garza was murdered by her abusive ex-boyfriend. A life full of promise and hope, cut tragically short, Liliana's story instead became subsumed into Mexico's dark and relentless history of domestic violence. With Liliana's case file abandoned by a corrupt criminal justice system, her family, including her older sister Cristina, was forced to process their grief and guilt in private, without any hope for justice. In luminous, poetic prose, Rivera Garza tells a singular yet universally resonant story: that of a spirited, wondrously hopeful young woman who tried to survive in a world of increasingly normalized gendered violence. It traces the story of her childhood, her early romance with a handsome--but possessive and short-tempered-man, through the exhilarating weeks leading up to that fateful July morning, a summer when Liliana loved, thought, and traveled more widely and freely than she ever had before.

Publisher Annotation: Spanning time, styles, and traditions, a dazzling collection of essential works from 140 Latine writers, scholars, and activists from across the world--from warrior poet Audre Lorde to novelist Edwidge Danticat and performer and author Elizabeth Acevedo and artist/poet Cecilia Vicuña--gathered in one magnificent volume. Daughters of Latin America collects the intergenerational voices of Latine women across time and space, capturing the power, strength, and creativity of these visionary writers, leaders, scholars, and activists--including 24 Indigenous voices. Several authors featured are translated into English for the first time. Grammy, National Book Award, Cervantes, and Pulitzer Prize winners as well as a Nobel Laureate and the next generation of literary voices are among the stars of this essential collection, women whose work inspires and transforms us. An eclectic and inclusive time capsule spanning centuries, genres, and geographical and linguistic diversity, Daughters of Latin America is divided into 13 parts representing the 13 Mayan Moons, each cycle honoring a different theme. Within its pages are poems from U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón and celebrated Cervantes Prize-winner Dulce María Loynaz; lyric essays from New York Times bestselling author Naima Coster, Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes, and Guggenheim Fellow Maryse Condé; rousing speeches from U.S. Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, and Lencan Indigenous land and water protector Berta Caceres; and a transcendent Mazatec chant from shaman and poet María Sabina testifying to the power of language as a cure, which opens the book. More than a collection of writings, Daughters of Latin America is a resurrection of ancestral literary inheritance as well as a celebration of the rising voices encouraged and nurtured by those who came before them.

Publisher Annotation: The Fernández sisters all want different things but are thrust together into a series of adventures and misadventures to forge their own paths and find happiness. Guerrero, Mexico, early twentieth century. A tragedy reverses the fortune of the Fernández family. Following the death of his wife, Micaela, and their youngest daughter, Milena, Don Ismael is left alone with his four remaining daughters, who are forced to grow up fast. Evelina, Faustina, Laureana, and Lena struggle to find their places in the world, far from the warmth and security of the family hacienda, Las Alumbradas. This is especially difficult for Lena, whose heart is heavy with nostalgia for the home of her youth. To compensate, she becomes belligerent and rebellious, and exploits a talent that defies rational understanding. Drawing on the ancestral teachings of the indigenous women who lived on the hacienda, Lena discovers the ability to cast and undo spells to protect those she loves from suffering. But if her life's purpose seems to be helping others, especially her sisters, how will she find her own happiness? Las Alumbradas tells the story of four sisters who navigate a series of extraordinary events, overcoming adversity in a tireless search for love.

Publisher Annotation: The extraordinary rediscovered novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude. Sitting alone beside the languorous blue waters of the lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach contemplates the men at the hotel bar. She has been happily married for twenty-seven years and has no reason to escape the life she has made with her husband and children. And yet, every August, she travels by ferry here to the island where her mother is buried, and for one night takes a new lover. Across sultry Caribbean evenings full of salsa and boleros, lotharios, and conmen, Ana journeys further each year into the hinterland of her desire and the fear hidden in her heart. Constantly surprising, joyously sensual, Until August is a profound meditation on freedom, regret, self-transformation, and the mysteries of love--an unexpected gift from one of the greatest writers the world has ever known.

Publisher Annotation: A POWERFUL NOVEL. A FASCINATING EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY UTOPIA. By a new voice in Latin American literature hailed by critics and fellow authors such as Clara Obligado, Ariana Harwicz and Marina Yuszczuk. Verónica is a professor from Argentina living in Paris and in a career rut. A new mother, her unconditional love for her baby can't make up for the feeling that becoming a parent has effectively ended her freedom. She distracts herself by researching a subject she has considered turning into a book: the lives of a fascinating group of women who were the protagonists of a little-known episode in history. In the early twentieth century, Monte Verità in Switzerland was home to an alternative, back-to-nature community that espoused trends that were ahead of their time, including feminism, sexual freedom, polyamory and pacifism. The women who founded it were in search of a utopia; hippies decades before the 1960s, they devoted themselves to art, dance and literature, becoming known as the Witches of Monte Verità. To continue her research and find an escape from domestic routine, Verónica invites two friends to join her on a trip to the mountains of Ascona, the site of the experimental community. There, she makes a series of discoveries that cause her to reframe her own live. A combination of fiction and essay, The Witches of Monte Verità interweaves the stories of women who, while separated by time and geography, strive for the same ideal and reflect on the constraints of love and motherhood. This is a passionate novel about daring to be free, and how lessons from the past can help make this possible.

Publisher Annotation: Across two different time periods, two women confront fear, loneliness, mortality, and a haunting yearning that will not let them rest. A breakout, genre-blurring novel from one of the most exciting new voices of Latin America’s feminist Gothic. It is the twilight of Europe’s bloody bacchanals, of murder and feasting without end. In the nineteenth century, a vampire arrives from Europe to the coast of Buenos Aires and, for the second time in her life, watches as villages transform into a cosmopolitan city, one that will soon be ravaged by yellow fever. She must adapt, intermingle with humans, and be discreet. In present-day Buenos Aires, a woman finds herself at an impasse as she grapples with her mother's terminal illness and her own relationship with motherhood. When she first encounters the vampire in a cemetery, something ignites within the two women—and they cross a threshold from which there’s no turning back. With echoes of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and written in the vein of feminist Gothic writers like Shirley Jackson, Daphne du Maurier, and Carmen Maria Machado, Thirst plays with the boundaries of genre while exploring the limits of female agency, the consuming power of desire, and the fragile vitality of even the most immortal of creatures.

¿POR QUÉ EL AMOR APARECE SIEMPRE CUANDO MENOS LO ESPERAS? Cata y Leo vienen de mundos muy distintos. Ella es una de las escritoras de novela romántica más famosas del momento, con todo lo que eso supone. Él, en cambio, lleva una vida mucho más tranquila como dueño de una pequeña y desconocida librería. Aun así, ambos comparten la misma pasión: el amor por los libros. Sin embargo, para Cata no está siendo fácil escribir su nueva novela. Se pasa los días delante de una hoja en blanco, totalmente bloqueada. Así que cuando recibe una invitación para asistir a un festival de escritores en la ciudad de sus sueños, lo interpreta como una señal. ¿Será ahí donde encuentre por fin la inspiración? ¿Qué ocurrirá cuando un malentendido cruce su camino con el de Leo? Entre paisajes idílicos, libros y atardeceres, Cata vivirá una experiencia única, y quién sabe si tal vez conozca al protagonista de su propia historia de amor. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION WHY IS IT THAT LOVE ALWAYS COMES WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT IT? Cata and Leo belong to very different worlds. She is one of the most famous romance novelists. He, however, leads a much quieter life as the owner of a small obscure bookstore. Even so, they both share the same passion: their love for books. Cata is having a hard time writing a new novel. She spends her days in front of a blank page, completely blocked. So, when she is asked to attend a writers festival in her dream city, she sees it as a sign. Is this the place where she will finally find her inspiration? What will happen when a misunderstanding makes her cross paths with Leo? Among idyllic landscapes, books, and sunsets, Cata will experience something unique. And, who knows, maybe she will meet the protagonist of her own love story?

Publisher Annotation: "Rivera Garza's literary creation, the most powerful, the most capable of breaking down barriers and limitations." -Elena Poniatowska In these stories live: a man who believes he has fallen in love with a mermaid from Nevado de Toluca; a girl in New York who translates letters about a secret love for a cosmetologist; a man who tries to find a recurring place in his dreams; and a teenager who bounces from his many girlfriends' homes and his neighborhood soccer field. They all grapple with a common conflict: encounters with others, especially with the female figure, which invariably leaves them with a persistent sense of loneliness and emptiness. In these brief encounters, Cristina Rivera Garza's pen emerges to narrate all where conventional notions of time and space become irrelevant. 168pp.

Publisher Annotation: A COMIC NOVEL ABOUT THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF COOKING Cristina's life takes a 180-degree turn when her friend and partner, Cuca, runs off and leaves her with a failing business. The only plan Cristina can think of to make ends meet and keep the business afloat is to teach cooking classes. Not without some trepidation, she starts offering sessions in person and online. In the process, she meets a motley cast of characters who think that learning to cook is the recipe for changing their lives. With Just a Few Yolks, the chef and owner of the TELVA cooking school, @beagaraizabal, serves up a deliciously different novel about food and cooking sprinkled with touches of Bridget Jones and Friends and a selection of must-try recipes.

Publisher Annotation: WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE PRIZE MARTA DE MONT MARÇAL The Box of Fears is an extraordinary spy novel set during World War One. By the end of the 19th century, little Aleksei an orphan from the Siberian steppe embarks on a journey to Moscow with the priest Vasiliy Lebedev and, from there, to Paris. In Paris, he will enjoy a new life with his Aunt Vania and the rest of their peculiar family. Mata Hari is the rising star of the Berlin cabarets when the Germans contact her: they want her to spy on the French, before the war breaks out. Margot, the woman who hides behind the diva, begins a journey that will take her from Germany to her beloved Madrid, to the eternal Paris, and to the foggy London immersed in the Great War. Her pilgrimage will reveal to her that she is only a pawn in the game of the powerful. A German submarine torpedoed The Pomone, a French ship, in the Cantabrian coast. Alexandre and the rest of the survivors are rescued by the inhabitants of the fishing village of Tazones. Thanks to them, Alex manages to travel to Gijón, where he will look for the person who hides the documents that Mata Hari left in the city. How will coincidences, circumstances and decisions intertwine the destiny of these characters?

Publisher Annotation: The founder of Latina Rebels and a Latinx Activist You Should Know (Teen Vogue) arms women of color with the tools and knowledge they need to find success on their own terms. For generations, Brown girls have had to push against powerful forces of sexism, racism, and classism, often feeling alone in the struggle. By founding Latina Rebels, Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez has created a community to help women fight together. In For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts, she offers wisdom and a liberating path forward for all women of color. She crafts powerful ways to address the challenges Brown girls face, from imposter syndrome to colorism. She empowers women to decolonize their worldview, and defy universal white narratives, by telling their own stories. Her book guides women of color toward a sense of pride and sisterhood and offers essential tools to energize a movement. May it spark a fire within you.

Publisher Annotation: This powerful and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea and Violeta weaves together past and present, tracing the ripple effects of war and immigration on one child in Europe in 1938 and another in the United States in 2019.

Publisher Annotation: After Mother, comes a new book by Paola Roig to accompany you through motherhood and raising your children. This is a must-read book to be free of guilt and feel supported throughout the process of being mothers. We Millennial mothers live in the age of information. We know which shoes are better for our kids, at what age we should introduce gluten into their diets, and how to be there for them when they are having a tantrum. We go through this upbringing process trying to break patterns, act differently, and be textbook moms. But who addresses what happens to us while trying to achieve all that? In this book I wanted to take on upbringing through psychology, of course, but also through the experience of the mothers I support and of my own. I wanted to comment on what is happening to us, of everything we have so much trouble naming, of what our children move in us, and how we can simplify the journey to accompany them and us. This is what you will find here. I will explore the crucial aspects of childcare, those that worry us most and the ones we read about most. I will give you a bit of theory to understand them and put them into context, and then I will ask you some questions so you may choose your own path, relying on your personal resources and that which you already have in you. No, this is not another manual on how to be the perfect mother. It is a book to find and trust in the sufficiently good mother you already are.

Publisher Annotation: An encyclopedic cookbook celebrating Latin American home cooking--the first to cover the day-to-day home cooking of all twenty-one nations--by one of the most respected authorities on the subject. In this monumental work, culinary expert Sandra A. Gutierrez shares more than three hundred everyday dishes--plus countless variations--that home cooks everywhere will want to replicate. Divided by ingredient--Beans, Corn, Yuca, Quinoa, and almost two dozen more--and featuring an extensive pantry section that establishes the fundamentals of Latin American cooking, Latinísimo brings together real recipes from home cooks in Argentina, Brazil, Belize, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, and Venezuela. From Tortillas de Nixtamal (Fresh Masa Tortillas), Arroz con Pollo (Chicken and Rice), and Arepas Clásicas (Classic Arepas) to Solterito (Lima Bean, Corn, and Tomato Salad), Sopa Seca con Albahaca à la Chinchana (One-Pot Spaghetti with Achiote and Basil), and Pastel de Tres Leches (Tres Leches Cake), these are recipes that reflect the incredible breadth and richnessof the culinary traditions of the region. Sweeping in its scope, and filled with history andstories, Latinísimo is an utterly essential resource for every kitchen.