Description Uprooted from Bogot into an ant-infested Miami townhouse, fifteen-year-old Francisca is miserable in her strange new city.
Her alienation grows when her mother is swept up in an evangelical church, replete with abstinent salsa dancers and baptisms for the dead.
But there, Francisca meets the magnetic Carmen: head of the youth group and the pastor's daughter.
As her mother's mental health deteriorates, Francisca falls for Carmen and is saved to grow closer with her, even as their relationship hurtles toward a shattering conclusion.
About the Author Juliana Delgado Lopera is an award-winning Colombian writer and historian based in San Francisco.
She is the author of Quiéreme (Nomadic Press 2017) and the illustrated, bilingual oral history collection ˇCuéntamelo! (Aunt Lute Books 2017), which won a 2018 Lambda Literary Award and a 2018 Independent Publisher Book Award.
She is the recipient of the 2014 Jackson Literary Award, and has received fellowships from the Brush Creek Foundation of the Arts, Lambda Literary Foundation, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, The SF Grotto, and an individual artist grant from the SF Arts Commission.
Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in Eleven Eleven, Foglifter, Four Way Review, Broadly, and Time Out Mag, among others.
She is formerly the creative director of RADAR Productions, a queer literary nonprofit in San Francisco.
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