Emerald Road: A Tale of Love, War, and BetrayalIn this powerful prequel to The Fitful Sleep of Immigrants, Orlando Ortega Medina weaves an inspiring story of survival, love, and resilience set against the violent backdrop of 1980s El Salvador. Isaac Perez, a young dreamer caught in the crossfire of El Salvador's civil war, is forced to flee north after his life is torn apart by military brutality. His journey to the United States is fraught with peril, but hes not alone; by his side is Ahbhu, a

takes a job with his father’s mobile-home empire that forces him to confront the unsavory foundations of his family’s wealth

and the two quickly become entangled in a covert relationship

Author Ronnie Riley creates a world full of queer joy and all the ups and downs of true friendship

Roxane explores what it means to be overweight in a time when the bigger you are

the awful son of the Huguenot queen

Ruben Sierra

Love in the Big City is a wry portrait of millennial loneliness as well as the abundant joys of queer life

these conversations convey the rich reciprocity between queerness and horror

But then the phone lights up

”—The New York Times Book Review“An ambitious work of metafiction

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1250887771

forcing him to live with his overprotective mother and overachieving sister