Mayra

MayraAn eerie, hypnotic debut about friendship, desire, and memory set against the sultry backdrop of Floridas swamplands. A mesmerizing, hallucinatory adrenaline rush of a novel.Claire Luchette, author of Agatha of Little Neon LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE Its been years since Ingrid has heard from her childhood best friend, Mayra, a fearless rebel who fled their hometown of Hialeah, a Cuban neighborhood just west of Miami, for

Meadow must contend with a possibly haunted apartment

and finding joy in unexpected places

or dispensing advice on how to navigate friendships with former drinking buddies who are now suburban moms (hang in there for the Costco loot

and our need to understand them both

the daughter of a respectable Chinese family in colonial Malaysia

"This sparkling

Publisher: DAW

Nor do they have tails

Carmen Maria Machado

with her grandmother gone and Sydney looking to start a family of her own

and as an American

Where there's a will