Howls for Edwidge Danticat's WE'RE ALONE! 🎉🎉🎉 https://www.clmp.org/press-center/clmp-announces-the-2025-firecracker-awards-finalists/ (fb)

Happy pub. day to Elisa Levi's THAT'S ALL I KNOW—translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney—a breakout novel about the restlessness of youth in rural Spain 🎉🎉 When a stranger loses his dog on the first day after the end of the world, Little Lea warns him not to follow it into the forest, that people who enter never come out. Over a shared joint, she tells him about the burning in her gut, winding a tale of loss, desire, and conspiracies. Little Lea sees the world through backcountry eyes that distrust the outsiders who come but who also get to leave. When she isn’t working at her mother’s grocery store, she cares for her empty-headed younger sister, Nora, who only cries when she’s in pain. Meanwhile, her friend Catalina does nothing but cry. Little Lea wants Javier to love her, and she doesn’t want Marco, who leaves weed and his best potatoes on her doorstep. As the town prepares for their end-of-the-world festival, she faces her intensifying desire to leave, that burning that unsettles her life—she wants to be useful somewhere else, even if it means being unloved, unwanted, unable to return. That’s all she knows. 🖇️ Pick up a copy from your local indie bookstore today! https://bookshop.org/p/books/that-s-all-i-know-elisa-levi/21740780?ean=9781644453377&next=t&affiliate=3215 (fb)