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Fiebre Tropical: A Novel
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About Fiebre Tropical: A Novel
Product Description Winner for the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction Winner of the 2021 Ferro-Grumley Literary Award for LGBTQ Fiction Finalist for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Fiction Lit by the hormonal neon glow of Miami, this debut novel follows a Colombian teenager's coming-of-age as she plunges headfirst into lust and evangelism. Uprooted from her comfortable life in Bogotá, Colombia, into an ant-infested Miami townhouse, fifteen-year-old Francisca is miserable and friendless in her strange new city. Her alienation grows when her mother is swept up into an evangelical church, replete with Christian salsa, abstinent young dancers, and baptisms for the dead. But there, Francisca also meets the magnetic Carmen: opinionated and charismatic, head of the youth group, and the pastor’s daughter. As her mother’s mental health deteriorates and her grandmother descends into alcoholism, Francisca falls more and more intensely in love with Carmen. To get closer to her, Francisca turns to Jesus to be saved, even as their relationship hurtles toward a shattering conclusion. “Ebullient and assertive.” —New York Times "Julián Delgado Lopera—remember that name—is an irreverent, shameless and disarming new novelist. They are a merciless satirist in control of a pitch-perfect voice that makes an indisputable case for Spanglish as the perfect vehicle to express what we are really like right now." —NBC News Review “Ebullient and assertive. . . . Francisca’s soul stinks up the place beautifully in Fiebre Tropical.” —New York Times “Narrated in highly inventive Spanglish, the energy and verve of this novel’s voice is a joy to read.” —The Guardian “What Delgado Lopera pulls from that [Miami] heat in an inimitable voice is a bold, stylistic, and deeply moving examination of generational sadness, deferred desire, and the budding seeds of personal revolution that is entirely their own.” —Los Angeles Review of Books “Its language—funny and intelligent and fresh—glitters.” —Jezebel “Dripping with sweat, hating, and loving the experience of being alive, feeling a heartbeat and another heartbeat and a rhythm in the world that pulses through your own blood and bones: this is the stuff of a great queer novel.” —Lambda Literary Review “Fresh, funky and long overdue, stories like Fiebre Tropical are the future of American literature.” —Sounds and Colours“[Delgado Lopera] turns real stories into wonderful fictional stories that many people can identify with.” —Al Dia "Julián Delgado Lopera—remember that name—is an irreverent, shameless, and disarming new novelist. They are a merciless satirist in control of a pitch-perfect voice that makes an indisputable case for Spanglish as the perfect vehicle to express what we are really like right now." —Jaime Manrique, NBC News “A tragic tale punctuated with queer humour and raw emotion.” —Dazed Digital “Gorgeous, firecracker-like bilingual prose and a good dose of humor—even as it emotionally shatters.” —Seattle Times “Fiebre Tropical crackles and hums like neon, embedding contagious energy in the coming-of-age story of Francisca.” —them. “A layered portrait of exile, sexual awakening, and family bonds.” —The Millions “Exceptional, unflinching, cheeky and queer AF.” —Ms. “Captivating.” —Lambda Literary Review “Glowing. . . . story about coming of age as a queer adolescent, an immigrant, a daughter, a bilingual kid, a complex human being, this book is fast-paced and energetic while also being heartfelt and captivating.” —Literary Hub “Inventive and heady mixture of Spanish and English.” —White Review "A rich, deeply felt novel about family ties, immigration, sexual longing, faith, and desire. Simultaneously raw and luminous." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review "Moving and hilarious. . . . This feisty coming-of-age tale introduces a funny, fresh, and indelible new voice." —Publishers Weekly, starred review "Engaging and lyrical." —Booklist "Boiling over with searing details and raw emotion, Fiebr
