Explore the rich, multicultural tapestry of the Texas borderlands through these captivating novels about resilience and family. Three generations of women face grief head-on in Anamely Salgado Reyes’s My Mother Cursed My Name. Ramón struggles to understand himself, his family, and his home on the US-Mexico border in The Border Between Us by Rudy Ruiz. A lawyer and her elderly great-aunt use their supernatural gifts to find a lost child in The Witches of El Paso by Luis Jaramillo.
Please note: the author Rudy Ruiz is no longer able to join us at SABF.
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Luis Jaramillo is the author the award-winning short story collection, The Doctor’s Wife. His writing has appeared in LitHub, BOMB Magazine, Los Angeles Review of Books, and other publications. He is an assistant professor of creative writing at The New School. He received an undergraduate degree from Stanford University and an MFA from The New School. The Witches of El Paso is his debut novel.
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Please note: the author Rudy Ruiz is no longer able to join us at SABF.
Rudy Ruiz is the author of the novels The Resurrection of Fulgencio Ramirez and Valley of Shadows; the short story collection Seven for the Revolution; a nonfiction book in Spanish, ¡Adelante!; an essay in the anthology Going Hungry; and numerous short stories, essays and columns in literary journals, newspapers, and websites. His accolades include the Texas Institute of Letters’ Jesse H. Jones Award for Best Book of Fiction; the Gulf Coast Prize in Fiction; and eight International Latino Book Awards. Most recently, he was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters and longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. A bilingual native of the US–Mexico border, Rudy earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Harvard University. He lives in San Antonio and Boston with his wife and two children. His new novel is The Border Between Us.
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Anamely Salgado Reyes grew up on both sides of the Mexico and Texas border. Currently based in the Rio Grande Valley, she writes about what she cherishes most: family, friendship, and finding magic in everyday life. My Mother Cursed My Name is her debut novel.
