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The Waves Take You Home

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Author

María Alejandra Barrios

Genre

Upmarket Fiction

Release Date

March 19, 2024

Publisher

Lake Union

Categories , , Tag Product ID: 19520

Description

In this heartfelt story about how the places we run from hold the answers to our deepest challenges, the death of her grandmother brings a young woman home, where she must face the past in order to become the heir of not just the family restaurant, but her own destiny.

Violeta Sanoguera had always done what she was told. She left the man she loved in Colombia in pursuit of a better life for herself and because her mother and grandmother didn’t approve of him. Chasing dreams of education and art in New York City, and with a new love, twenty-eight-year-old Violeta establishes a new life for herself, on her terms. But when her grandmother suddenly dies, everything changes.

After years of being on her own in NYC, Violeta finds herself on a plane back to Colombia, accompanied at all times by the ghost of her grandmother who is sending her messages and signs, to find she is the heir of the failing family restaurant, the very one Abuela told her to run from in the first place. The journey leads her to rediscover her home, her grandmother, and even the flame of an old love.

About the Author

Photograph of author María Alejandra Barrios

M

aría Alejandra Barrios is a writer and educator from Barranquilla, Colombia. She has an MA in Creative Writing from The University of Manchester and currently lives in Brooklyn. Her novel THE WAVES TAKE YOU HOME is forthcoming from Lake Union Publishing, Spring 2024. View the announcement here.

Pre-order here.

Her Stories 

Have been published in places such as Reservoir Journal, Cosmonauts Avenue, Jellyfish Review, Lost Balloon, Shenandoah Literary, Vol.1 Brooklyn, El Malpensante, Moon City, Fractured Lit, and SmokeLong Quarterly. She was the 2020 SmokeLong Flash Fiction Fellow and her work has been supported by organizations such as Vermont Studio Center, Caldera Arts Center, and the New Orleans Writing Residency. She is a Kweli Art of the Short Story Writing Workshop alum and Kweli fellow.

María Alejandra Barrios is represented by Amanda Orozco at Transatlantic Agency.

Teaching

María teaches classes in places such as Gotham Writers, Paragraph NY, and Catapult.

María also edits SmokeLong en Español. Read the latest issue here!

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