Juliana Delgado Lopera

"In this novel told in Spanglish, fifteen-year-old Francisca is uprooted from her life in Bogotá, Colombia, and moves with her family to Miami, Florida, where she is ushered into an evangelical church and falls in love with the pastor's daughter" --

Fiebre Tropical

Pilar Finuccio

Back in Colombia during the weekly school mass, whenever I searched for spiritual or moral guidance, the image of the bloody, bearded, and let's not forget -hot Son of God shook me back to my senses: stop kissing the Salserín posters, Francisca, He died for you. And although my religious skepticism started at the age of eleven when I began falling asleep during mass, stealing my tías' cigarettes, and rubbing myself on the edge of the bed, the crown of thorns created a fear so deep I found myself praying unconsciously after each sin.

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