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Magic City Books is thrilled to welcome Fernando Flores for a free, in-store program on Monday, February 17 at 7:00 pm to celebrate his new novel, Brother Bronte.Fernando Flores was born in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico and raised in South Texas. His first novel, Tears of the Trufflepig, was long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and was named a best book of 2019 by Tor.com. His work has appeared in numerous publications including; Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly, American Short Fiction, Ploughshares, Frieze, and Porter House Review.
Brother Bronte is a Most Anticipated Book of 2025 by the Los Angeles Times. “This is a wild ride of a novel, and a fascinating look at a future that, sadly, seems frighteningly plausible. A stunning tale of survival and a biting critique of book bans and late capitalism.” –Kirkus (starred review)
“In rich, exciting prose, Flores takes the reader on a wild and frightening adventure, roving narrative territories left completely unexplored by other recent U.S. writing, territories bordered in the far distance by the fantastic realms of Latin American and Eastern European greats. Sardonic, disturbing, and thoroughly pleasurable, Brother Brontë feels like nothing so much as a profoundly generous gift.” –Jennifer Croft, author of The Extinction of Irena Rey
Brother Bronte will be published by MCD on February 11. You can purchase a copy at Magic City Books or online at: https://magiccitybooks.square.site/product/brother-bronte/3081.
About Brother Bronte
Two women fight to save their dystopian border town–and literature–in this gonzo near-future adventure.
The year is 2038, and the formerly bustling town of Three Rivers, Texas, is a surreal wasteland. Under the authoritarian thumb of its tech industrialist mayor, Pablo Henry Crick, the town has outlawed reading and forced most of the town’s mothers to work as indentured laborers at the Big Tex Fish Cannery, which poisons the atmosphere and lines Crick’s pockets.
Scraping by in this godforsaken landscape are best friends Prosperina and Neftalí–the latter of whom, one of the town’s last literate citizens, hides and reads the books of the mysterious renegade author Jazzmin Monelle Rivas, whose last novel, Brother Brontë, is finally in Neftalí’s possession. But after a series of increasingly violent atrocities committed by Crick’s forces, Neftalí and Prosperina, with the help of a wounded bengal tigress, three scheming triplets, and an underground network of rebel tías, rise up to reclaim their city–and in the process, unlock Rivas’s connection to Three Rivers itself.
An adventure that only the acclaimed Fernando A. Flores could dream up, Brother Brontë is a mordant, gonzo romp through a ruined world that, in its dysfunction, tyranny, and disparity, nonetheless feels uncannily like our own. With his most ambitious book yet, Flores once again bends what fiction can do, in the process crafting a moving and unforgettable story of perseverance.
Fernando A. Flores was born in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico, and grew up in South Texas. He is the author of the collections Death to the Bullshit Artists of South Texas and Valleyesque and the novel Tears of the Trufflepig, which was long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and named a best book of 2019 by Tor.com. His fiction has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly, American Short Fiction, Ploughshares, Frieze, Porter House Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Austin, Texas.
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