Yxta Maya Murray, Author . Harper $13.95 (406p) ISBN 978-0-06-089108-4
Law professor Murray continues her Red Lion series (following The Queen Jade
) with a death-defying treasure hunt that transforms her “sedentary, word-mad bibliophile†heroine into “a genuine biblio-adventurer
.†When a stranger approaches...
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Yxta Maya Murray, Author Penguin/Razorbill $16.99 (251p) ISBN 978-1-59514-341-9
Fifteen-year-old Michelle Peña is a good student and track star, living with her gay foster father. She has her sights set on a scholarship to a prestigious prep school, but is dogged by her past. She’s the offspring of gang leader...
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Yxta Maya Murray, Author Grove/Atlantic $22 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1605-5
Rather than simmer beneath the surface, anger boils over on the pages of this first novel. Murray perfectly captures the patois and fury of the Mexican women of the East L.A. neighborhood of Echo Park. Here, the gang hierarchy is set in stone. There
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Yxta Maya Murray, Author Grove/Atlantic $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1642-0
Rita Zapata, the Mexican-American heroine of Murray's (Locas) beautifully written but patchy second novel about coming of age in East L.A. in the '80s and '90s learns early on that it's no blessing to look just like her mother, Lola, a woman born...
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Yxta Maya Murray, Author, Yxta Maya Murray, Author . HarperCollins/Rayo $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-009359-4
Moving away from the urban barrio settings of her previous works, Murray (Locas; What It Takes to Get to Vegas) entwines the tales of two Latin American women separated by centuries in her third novel. Sara Gonzales is a rare-book restorer at the...
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Yxta Maya Murray, Author, Yxta Maya Murray, Author . HarperCollins/Rayo $23.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-058264-7
A trek through the Guatemalan rain forest helps a Mexican-American woman heal old family wounds—and solve a centuries-old archeological puzzle to boot—in this atmospheric, long-winded adventure story by Murray (The Conquest
). Lola...
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Yxta Maya Murray. Triquarterly, $18.95 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-0-8101-4292-3
Murray (The Good Girl’s Guide to Getting Kidnapped) offers a fascinating if uneven portrait of a Latinx artist as she struggles to balance life and art. The narrative takes the form of a shifting series of Wikipedia entries, snippets of confessional
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Yxta Maya Murray. Curbstone, $20 trade paper (200p) ISBN 978-0-8101-4602-0
Murray (Art Is Everything) delves into the impact of nuclear meltdowns in the 1950s and ’60s on present-day California in her engrossing latest, presented as a report by an EPA agent. Reyna Rodriguez, 32, grew up near the Santa Susana lab in Simi...
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