Fiebre tropical : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 9781936932757
- ISBN: 193693275X
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Physical Description:
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283 pages ; 21 cm - Edition: First Feminist Press edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2020.
Content descriptions
Language Note: | In English and Spanish. |
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Subject: | Lesbians Fiction Lesbian teenagers Fiction Young women Florida Miami Fiction Colombians Florida Miami Fiction Colombians Lesbian teenagers Lesbians Young women Florida Miami |
Genre: | Fiction. Lesbian fiction. Novels. Love stories. Lesbian fiction. |
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Fiebre Tropical : A Novel
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Fiebre Tropical : A Novel
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 Bogotá, 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 " Julián 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