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Miami Lit
These titles by Miami authors explore questions of identity, heritage, self-discovery and the ties that bind through uniquely diverse voices.
Looking Over the
Ordinary Girls
Next Year in Havana
Don’t Date Rosa
Edge by Caroline
by Jaquira Díaz
by Chanel Cleeton
Santos by Nina
Dear Haiti, Love
de Posada
Ordinary Girls is a
Linking together past
Moreno
Alaine by Maika
A family vacation in
fierce, honest and
and present, 1958
Rosa Santos is
Moulite and
the Black Mountains
raw coming-of-
and 2017, Next Year
known to be
Maritza Moulite
of New Jersey
age memoir that
in Havana tells the
cursed by the sea,
Get swept away in
goes awry when
employs music and
story of when young
keeping boys and
the magic, rhythm
parents and young
lyricism to tackle
writer Marisol
love always at
and mystery of Haiti
children suddenly
topics of depression,
Ferrera returns to
bay. Navigating
by experiencing it
find themselves
colonialism and
Cuba to scatter her
the pull of
all through the eyes
at the edge of a
sexual identity.
grandma’s ashes.
expectations and
of an enigmatic
treacherous cliff. In
Set in the housing
A trip that should
reality, truth
protagonist. Threaded
the blink of an eye,
projects in Puerto
have been open-
and secrets,
together with letters,
life and death hang
Rico and Miami
and-shut becomes a
family and love,
transcripts, emails,
in the balance. How
Beach, Ordinary
journey of discovery
a young Cuban
postcards and diary
will they make it
Girls is a story
when Marisol finds
American woman
entries, Alaine
through, and what
about family,
herself unearthing
struggles with
explores the country
will they learn about
friends, mental
a family secret of
the ambivalent
and her connection
themselves in the
health and love
forbidden passions
emotions she
to it through history
process? Find out in
that delves into the
and political turmoil
and her family
and culture. The
Caroline de Posada’s
profound impact
that will help her
experience about
trials of divorce, race,
gripping and
of violence, culture
come to terms with
the troubled land
mental illness and
uplifting adventure.
and history.
her identity.
of her ancestors.
BY M E RY L D ’SA
even voodoo all come to life with masterful tenderness and
M I A M I B O O K FA I R I N T E R N AT I O N A L
authenticity.
The Miami Book Fair International is an annual eight-day literary affair that takes place in Downtown Miami every November. The fair hosts more than 400 authors and poets who come to town to offer readings, writing and publishing seminars, and literary workshops. With access to off-the-press books, author signings and more, it’s a literary gathering for book lovers.
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