If 2021 is shaping up to be anything like 2020, we’re looking at a
lot more time with only ourselves for company. Luckily, Latine authors are up for the challenge of helping to fill that time. From a novel-in-verse about maybe falling in love with Selena’s ghost to a memoir about growing up queer and biracial in rural Indiana, 2021 promises us a dizzying variety of novels, memoirs, and poetry to carry us through the remaining lock-in.
Here are 10 books coming out (mostly) in the first half of 2021, to keep you company while you wait for your vaccine:
Marcos Gonsalez,
Pedro’s Theory: Reimagining the Promised Land
By Liza Monroy |
These days, essayist Annabelle Gurwitch (
You’re Leaving When?, Counterpoint, Apr.) appreciates writing that offers closure. “With the pandemic, everything’s taking so much longer,” she says. “It seems harder to complete tasks, but reading essays and short stories, I get that beginning, middle, and end experience.”
Personal essays in particular can offer a welcome sense of connection with the writer, say other practitioners of the form. “One of the things I miss most about having a social life is meeting a new friend, or reconnecting with an old one,” says Melissa Febos (
Girlhood, Bloomsbury, Mar.). “The best essays give me that feeling.”
Yes, the River Walk really is that magical
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Oklahoma writer and artist John Paul Brammer, who currently lives in Brooklyn, recently reminisced the time his Abuelo took him to San Antonio River Walk when he was little in a tweet on Saturday.Image by Erik Pronske Photograph/Getty Images
Yes, someone who isn t a San Antonio native thinks highly of the River Walk.
Oklahoma writer and artist John Paul Brammer, who currently lives in Brooklyn, recently reminisced the time his abuelo took him to San Antonio when he was little in a tweet on Saturday. (I) thought what could possibly top this, he wrote.
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