Böcker i Blue Light Books-serien

Love, tequila, sex, first periods, late nights, abuse, and heartache. The journey of a Latina girl to womanhood and then motherhood is brimming with transformative magic that heals even as it shatters.

How are our lives shaped by the difficult choices of our parents and even grandparents? How will our own choices direct the future for our children? Following generations of one family across nearly a century, each of Andrea Lewis's intertwined, engaging short stories evokes an intense sense of place and time, from New Orleans in 1895 to Grand Isle, Louisiana, during the hurricane of 1901 and on to London during the Olympic Games of 1948. The people in these ten vivid tales face tragedy and real-world catastrophic events-war, hurricanes, the Great Depression, racial tension-in their pursuit of love, family, and belonging. Each character struggles to discover and preserve his or her identity and dreams while grappling with the expectations of family and culture and trying to cope with loss. Some succeed, some compromise, and some fail, but all have a traceable impact on a story to come.

Equal parts funny, tragic, and wise, this striking short story collection teaches us how to live in a world as cruel as it is beautiful.

-Will be promoted by Indiana Review. -Smith's sci-fi/fantasy/speculative fiction may find a wider audience than previous BLB winners. -Combines sci-fi with modern technology to make reality a fuzzy line

-Will be promoted by Indiana Review -Explores universal human need to create narrative out of disparate events -Perfect for readers who like literary realism or speculative fiction

Features short stories by the winner of the 2020 Blue Light Books prize Uses magical realism to address a common thread of suffering and grief Will be promoted by the Indiana Review

""These are new Cubans. Twenty-first-century Marielitos. Balseros, as the bartender had referred to them. I know, because my mom tells me that these are the kinds of Cubans I need to stay away from." In eight captivating stories, In This World of Ultraviolet Light navigates tensions between Cubans, Cuban Americans, and the larger Latinx community. Though these stories span many locations-from a mulch manufacturing facility on the edge of Big Cypress National Preserve to the borderlands between Georgia and the Carolinas-they are overshadowed by an obsession with Miami as a place that exists in the popular imagination. Beyond beaches and palm trees, Raul Palma goes off the beaten path to portray everyday people clinging to their city and struggling to find cultural grounding. As Anjali Sachdeva writes, "This is fiction to steal the breath of any reader, from any background." Boldly interrogating identity, the discomfort of connection, and the entanglement of love and cruelty, In This World of Ultraviolet Light is a nuanced collection of stories that won't let you go"--