Title: Catalina

Author(s): Villavicencio Karla Cornejo

Summary: When Catalina is admitted to Harvard, it feels like the fulfillment of destiny: a miracle child escapes death in Latin America, moves to Queens to be raised by her undocumented grandparents, and becomes one of the chosen. But nothing is simple for Catalina, least of all her own complicated, contradictory, ruthlessly probing mind. Despite being with her for less than two hundred pages; we don’t only learn her insecurities, her hopes and wishes, but we also get her thoughts on historical figures, pop culture, literature, fashion, and phone sex. And with this kind of intimacy comes a feeling of expansiveness, yet with a level of compression that’s admirable. Craving a great romance, Catalina finds herself drawn to a fellow student, an actual budding anthropologist eager to teach her about the Latin American world she was born into but never knew, even as her life back in Queens begins to unravel.

Genre: Available on Amazon , Fiction , Most Popular Books 2021 - 2025 , Saga