Liza Monroy, Author . Spiegel & Grau $21.95 (334p) ISBN 978-0-385-52359-2
Monroy's spirited, overreaching debut tracks a rocky coming-of-age. Milagro Márquez's father is a wealthy, powerful Mexico City native, but her mother, a California-raised Jew, who works for the foreign service, won't tell...
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Liza Monroy. Soft Skull (PGW, dist.), $16.95 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-59376-536-1
In this unconventional love story, author Monroy (Mexican High) explores the boundaries of commitment and the parameters that constitute a marriage. At age 21 in the year 2001, just following 9/11, Monroy finds herself down on one knee in a West...
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Liza Monroy. Soft Skull, $16.95 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-59376-649-8
Monroy (The Marriage Act) chronicles her efforts to find lasting love with the (often unsolicited) advice of her opinionated mother, a retired U.S. visa screener referred to as “The Profiler,” who she first wrote about in 2012 in an essay for the...
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Liza Monroy. Regalo, $28.99 (384p) ISBN 979-8-88845-481-7
With this thought-provoking work of speculative fiction, Monroy (The Marriage Act) examines social media addiction in an eerily plausible future. Mischa Osborn, creator of the failed project Alovue (an algorithm “capable of actual love”), now works...
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