Annie McDermott — Charco Press Loop is a love story narrated from the point of view of a woman who waits for her boyfriend Jonás to return from a trip to Spain They met when she was recovering from an accident and he had just lost his mother Soon after that, they were living together
Jennifer Croft — Charco Press Passages from a shared past and present that are transformed into fiction when faced with a forgetting that can no longer refute them A book that opposes disintegration with a precise and vital prose and the unique sensibility of one of Latin America’s greatest storytellers
Megan McDowell — Charco Press This marks the opening of a novel that combines memoir and fiction, as it unveils an urgent exploration of the brotherly bond, and the effects that death can have on our most intimate circles as well as on ourselves
Fionn Petch — Charco Press A Musical Offering traverses the same shifting sands of fiction and history as the tales of Jorge Luis Borges, while also recalling the ‘constellation’ structure of Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights
Charlotte Coombe — Charco Press Ricardo Romero has been compared to Franz Kafka and Italo Calvino, and we see why in this eerie, meditative novel narrated by a shy young boy who seems to be very good at lying about the truth
Frances Riddle — Charco Press When the Virgin Mary appears to Cleopatra, she renounces sex work and takes charge of the shantytown she lives in, transforming it into a tiny utopia
Maureen Shaughnessy — Charco Press In the most private spaces, the most intimate betrayals occur Belén López Peiró places us squarely in the tenderest of times—young teenagehood, in a home about to be ruptured by sexual assault In this home, for this young woman, your assailant is your uncle, and also a police commissioner
Ellen Jones — Charco Press Restoration is a ghost story with porous borders, between Jasmina and these forgotten women, between the novel and us And the questions Barrera asks may be about what’s behind our own barred door
Cherilyn Elston — Charco Press Translated by Cherilyn Elstonand Carolina Orloff Short stories of subtle menace and Lydia Davis-esque humor On the eve of an important battle, a colonel is visited in his tent by an indigenous woman with a message to pass on
Daniel Hahn — Charco Press Known and celebrated in Brazil and abroad for his novel Resistance, Julián Fuks returns to his auto-fictional alter ego Sebastián in a narrative alternating between the writer’s conversations with refugees occupying a building in downtown São Paulo, his father’s sickness, and his wife’s pregnancy