Hispanic Heritage Month runs from September 15-October 15. This month is specifically designated to celebrate the histories, cultures and contributions of American citizens whose ancestors came from Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean and Central and South America. In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, here are some great new works of fiction (across genres) written by authors with Hispanic heritage. (You may also be interested in reading New Memoirs for Hispanic Heritage Month.)
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Cash Delgado is living the dream : a novel
by Tehlor Kay Mejia Cash Delgado's comfortable life in Ridley Falls is upended by a charming ex, confusing dreams and the potential loss of her beloved pub, Joyce's Bar, by a former manager with big plans, forcing her to confront her true desires. |
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Clean : a novel
by Alia Trabucco Zeran Estela, a maid interrogated after a young girl's death, recounts her seven years witnessing the unraveling of a wealthy family, revealing their secrets, betrayals and tensions in a gripping tale of power, domesticity and betrayal. |
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House of Bone and Rain
by Gabino Iglesias In Puerto Rico, five teenagers vow vengeance for their friend's mother who was murdered by a drug kingpin, while a hurricane unleashes vengeful spirits on the island, in the new novel from the author of The Devil Takes You Home. |
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Lightning in her hands
by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland Gifted-or cursed-with the power to influence the weather, one woman must embrace her wild heart in the next electric romance from the author of Witch of Wild Things. Teal Flores is desperate for two things-control over her gift of weather, and a date to her ex's wedding. The first isn't possible until she finds her long-lost mother, but the second has a very handsome last-ditch solution: Carter Velasquez. Carter needs Teal too. His chance at receiving an inheritance is dependent on him being married by age thirty (blame his traditional Cuban grandmother), so who better to pose as his wife than Teal? But fake marriage and cohabitation prove tricky when mutual attraction charges the atmosphere-quite literally for Teal, whose volatile emotions cause lightning strikes. Together, Teal and Carter embark on a quest to find her mother and the answers she's searching for. But along the way, they'll discover something even better: a love that can weather any storm. |
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The next best fling
by Gabriella Gamez When the two people they're in love with get engaged to each other, librarian Marcela Ortiz and ex-NFL player Theo Young have a no-strings attached rebound relationship, which results in complicated feelings, messy familiar dynamics and uncovered secrets. |
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Oye : a novel
by Melissa Mogollon The baby of her large Colombian American family, Luciana, when her eccentric grandmother, Abue, moves into her bedroom, finds her wild demands, unpredictable antics and devastating secrets a welcome distraction, putting her on center stage, facing down adulthood—and rising to the occasion. |
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The palace of Eros
by Caro De Robertis A bold retelling of the traditional Greek myth of Psyche and Eros through a queer and feminist lens, grappling with the complex and thorny questions of how to harness the power of female and queer joy and cultivate freedom in a world that seeks to cage us. |
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The seventh veil of Salome
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia In 1950s Hollywood, when an unknown Mexican ingenue is cast as Salome, a star-making role in a big-budget movie about the legendary heroine, she becomes the object of envy of Nancy Hartley, a bit player who will do anything to win the fame she believes she richly deserves. |
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Tiny threads : a novel
by Lilliam Rivera A young woman gets her dream job working for a famous designer—and discovers the dark side of the glamorous world of fashion. |
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There is a Rio Grande in heaven : stories
by Ruben Reyes A debut story collection about Central American identity spans past, present and future worlds to reveal what happens when your life is no longer your own. |
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The volcano daughters
by Gina Maria Balibrera Spending years under the cruel dictator El Gran Pendejo's regime in El Salvador, sisters Graciela and Consuelo, when genocide strikes the community from which they hail, and each believing the other to be dead, flee across the globe, reinventing themselves until fate brings them back together in the most unlikely of ways. |
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The Witches of El Paso
by Luis Jaramillo A lawyer and her elderly great-aunt use their supernatural gifts to find a lost child in this richly imagined and empowering story of motherhood, magic, and legacy in the vein of The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina and La Hacienda. |