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LocaAlejandro Heredia

Loca

2025352 pages
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It’s 1999, and best friends Sal and Charo are striving to hold on to their dreams in a New York determined to grind them down. Sal is a book-loving science nerd trying to grow beyond his dead-end job in a new city, but he’s held back by tragic memories from his past in Santo Domingo. Free-spirited Charo is surprised to find herself a mother at twenty-five, partnered with a controlling man, working at the same supermarket for years, her world shrunk to the very domesticity she thought she’d escaped in her old country. When Sal finds love at a gay club one night, both his and Charo’s worlds…

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  • Hardcover · English · 2025
    Simon & Schuster · 352 pages · 9781668050460
FictionQueerLGBTHistorical FictionContemporaryLiterary FictionLGBTQ+Historical