Now Avaliable: Brown Son of Lorca
With Alicia Kaplan, actress and founder of Danisarte, at the NYC reading of Brown Son of Lorca.
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Brown Son of Lorca
A Boy Reclaimed in Poems, Stories & Voice Released June 9, 2025 : Available Now on Amazon Kindle and Amazon Books Brown Son of Lorca is the most personal work I’ve ever written. It is a collection of poems and short prose that explores what it means to grow up brown—what it means to remember, to belong, and to resist forgetting. The boy who walks through these pages—curious, quiet, determined—is me, and he is also so many others. Lorca’s spirit runs through every line. His courage, lyricism, and tragic beauty remain touchstones for me—not just as a writer, but as someone who knows what it means to live at the intersection of silence and voice. This book is a reclamation. Of memory. Of identity. Of self. I offer it in hope, in gratitude, and in truth. Brown Son of Lorca was officially released on June 9, 2025, the same day I presented selections from the book in New York City at La Nacional, as part of Danisarte’s celebration of the life and legacy of Federico García Lorca, founded by acclaimed actress Alicia Kaplan. |
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National Latino Book Club Latino Book of the Year in Fiction |
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"A Straight Forward Touching Account."
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"This powerful novel is a great reminder for mature readers that there is much to American culture that gets left unsaid and erased."
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Both titles contain the English and Spanish versions in the same book.
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