Tag: indigenous Authors
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Auto-Buy Authors: Erika T. Wurth
I am starting a new series featuring my auto-buy authors (authors whose work I will always pick up) and my first feature is on Erika T. Wurth! Today also happens to be her birthday. Erika is an Indigenous author who local to me, and I love how she incorporated aspects of Colorado into her books…
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Interview with Jennifer Givhan for “The Sleeping Sisters”
Last year, I had the privilege of reading Salt Bones by Jennifer Givhan and connecting with her. With a background in poetry, Jenn’s writing is lyrical, haunting, and gorgeous. Her writing is beyond vital in the times we are living in. Jenn writes from her Indigenous, Mexican American background, highlighting her beautiful community combining folklore…
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Devastating and Gorgeous – One of the Best Books I Have Read
The Sleeping Sisters by Jennifer Givhan Synopsis A threatened mother and a relentless detective collide when a series of murders awaken something long buried in the New Mexican desert in this mesmerizing novel of literary horror, perfect for fans of Carmen Maria Machado and Stephen Graham Jones. “A marvelously strange story of murder and motherhood.…
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Heartbreaking, Horrifying, & Timely – A Book That Demands to Be Read
Salt Bones by Jennifer Givhan Book Synopsis For fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic and Ramona Emerson’s Shutter: a gripping retelling of Persephone and Demeter in the Mexicali borderlands At the edge of the Salton Sea, in the blistering borderlands, something is out hunting. . . Malamar Veracruz has never left the dust-choked town of El Valle. Here, Mal…
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