Should you save a world that doesn’t want to save you?
We’re thrilled to share an excerpt from We Light Up the Sky, a new novel from author Lilliam Rivera about an alien invasion seen from the perspective of three Latinx teens—publishing October 5th with Bloomsbury.
An artist mutilates his body, repeatedly “dying” in front an audience composed of aliens. A man sits in a dining room table as guests argue over Goya and Velasquez, but he is also back in time forced to skin an animal by a 17th century pirate. Hooves peak out from underneath a woman’s skirt. In the center of this brutal dance is a Caribbean tale soaked in familiarity and truth.
There are a multitude of outstanding Caribbean literary voices with authors Yoss, Rita Indiana, and Tiphanie Yanique producing exciting works that stay with you long after you reach The End. What these three authors seamlessly do is combine the magical, the horrific, and the mundane as one. The speculative is not the absurd thing on the page, it is a matter of fact. It is a conversation of colonization, of what it is to be from las Americás, of other and otherness, and most importantly, it is about survival.
We’re thrilled to share an excerpt from Never Look Back, a retelling of the Greek myth Orpheus and Eurydice from acclaimed author Lilliam Rivera. Rivera blends a touch of magical realism into a timely story about cultural identity, overcoming trauma, and the power of first love—available September 1st from Bloomsbury.
