Delgado Lopera Juliana - Fiebre Tropical - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Winner for the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction Winner of the 2021 Ferro - Grumley Literary Award for Lgbtq Fiction Finalist for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Fiction Lit by the hormonal neon glow of Miami this debut novel follows a Colombian teenager's coming - of - age as she plunges headfirst into lust and evangelism. Uprooted from her comfortable life in Bogot Colombia into an ant - infested Miami townhouse fifteen - year - old Francisca is miserable and friendless in her strange new city. Her alienation grows when her mother is swept up into an evangelical church replete with Christian salsa abstinent young dancers and baptisms for the dead. But there Francisca also meets the magnetic Carmen: opinionated and charismatic head of the youth group and the pastor's daughter. As her mother's mental health deteriorates and her grandmother descends into alcoholism Francisca falls more and more intensely in love with Carmen. To get closer to her Francisca turns to Jesus to be saved even as their relationship hurtles toward a shattering conclusion. Ebullient and assertive. New York Times " Juli n Delgado Lopera remember that name is an irreverent shameless and disarming new novelist. They are a merciless satirist in control of a pitch - perfect voice that makes an indisputable case for Spanglish as the perfect vehicle to express what we are really like right now." NBC News
Title: Fiebre Tropical
Author(s): Delgado Lopera Juliana
Publisher: Feminist Press At The City University Of New York
Barcode: 9781936932757
Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Date: 3/4/2020
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction