Books June 2023

Jocelyn Nicole Johnson · Alpha Decay · 2023
Jocelyn Nicole Johnson proposes a creepy dystopia due to the plausibility of the plot: a group of Charlottesville residents, not Virginia, He is attacked by a white supremacist mob and flees in an abandoned bus into the city's hills.. Racism, violence, supremacism and class struggle in a short and fast-paced novel, perfect to receive the holidays. An invitation to reflect on the society in which we live, focusing on today's divided North America.. ALODIA CLEMENTE (The Red)

The Harvard Psychedelic Club
For Latin · Nature's mistakes · 2023
Don Lattin brings together four of the most memorable figures of the sixties to compose an essay that is, in turn, an ode to the very strange and very brief wave of conceptual freedom that the sixties and seventies represented. An essay on LSD, sex and, of course, el rock and roll. A brilliant book to record an extraordinary era that remains, at once, so far and so close, of these gray times that we inhabit. JAIME ORTEGA (Per-r-ucho)

King Shadow's Hammer
Raúl Quinto · Joke & Jill · 2023
He 30 July 1749, under the reign of Fernando VI and by order of the Marquis of La Ensenada, There was a massive arrest of the Spanish Gypsy population in what has come to be described as a failed extermination project.: the Great Raid. King Shadow's Hammer check, with enveloping prose, this episode in our history in which the detained Roma population (his amnesty did not come until eighteen years later) He wandered through improvised prisons doing slave labor in arsenals and houses of mercy. At the same time, it recreates life at the court of the first Bourbons, unfolding a tapestry of political intrigue., luxuries and tragedies through a series of brilliant and meticulously documented biographies. LIGHTS ROMERO

look at that girl
Cristina Araújo Gámir · Tusquets · 2022
Cristina Araújo has touched up the case of “the pack” to construct a story full of grays about consent, the psychological mechanisms that operate in a raped woman (during and after) and the social reaction that accompanies an event with so much media impact at the time of the #metoo. Probably, the greatest merit of look at that girl be the portrait he makes of adolescence (that “transitory illness”) in your insecurities and complexes, his wanting to be different and fit in at the same time, their hormonal storms and their way of dealing with emotional and sexual relationships. This is a story told from many voices that express solidly constructed and braided feelings., those of the victim, his mother and his friends, but also those of rapists, the judiciary and society in general, consumer of sensational media, Filtered dating apps and social networks willing to comment on everything at the moment. Tusquets Novel Prize 2022. S.M.