Otros valles: A Novel

is my first novel, which is to say it's an imperfect novel but also one that is free and strikingly honest. Moving cyclically, shifting with the changing of the weather, the novel is composed of story fragments that follow half a year in the life of a trans Latina living on the Texas/Tamaulipas border.

It is, at turns: a literary novel that reflects on the act of writing poetry; a sci-fi novel that describes the nightmare consequences of the surveillance and militarization of the border; a trans lesbian erotic novel and catalog of fantasies; a trans woman's memoir that relates her struggles to be accepted by her family, find community in the Deep South, and untangle the shame around her body and her nonbinary identity; a political novel that critically examines the role of race in the narrator's communities and in her own life as a non-Black Latina learning about anti-Blackness; a Latin@ slice-of-life novel that is steeped in the culture, folklore, and supernatural reality of a Mexican family living on the border. 

Currently included in the download: (1) a 150 page PDF ebook, and (2) a mobi version of the novel, which can be read on Kindle devices and on other mobile devices with the Kindle App.