I'm currently doing the Reading Across Latin America challenge on StoryGraph and could really use your help! I finally got a library card with a better Spanish-language selection 🥳 so I'd love recommendations by Latin American authors (diaspora recs are ok too).

The challenge covers most countries in Latin America (only 21 of them), but I'd like to get recs for every country if possible. I know Spain and Equatorial Guinea aren't technically LatAm, but I'm down for those too. I'd also love recs for Brazil, Suriname, Guyana, and all of the Caribbean!

I mostly read fiction, but I'm open to anything that really moved you~ esp books you loved and want to share with me/PB community.

Thank you in advance! 🥰

"In other words, the fact that he doesn’t particularly want to have sex with her somehow makes the sex more intense and exciting.”

A few days ago, this line would've destroyed me. It still does but right now, I'm more annoyed. I gave this book a lot of goodwill, thinking it's critical of toxic masculinity by the very disturbing patterns and framing of sex. But upon reading this misogynistic article by The Guardian, I'm having doubts. According to the writer of the article, women (namely Rooney and Miranda July) have dominated the litfic genre so he celebrates "finally" having a male-written book reclaiming the male perspective of sex, whatever that is? Is that what book lacks you think? In this day and age, are we lacking a "male voice"?

The line above is said by a character most likely struggling with CPTSD as a result of CSA. To diminish it like this..... If this is what we're going for, I don't think I'm going to enjoy this at all? I'm going to finish this and form my own opinions of it but my taste of it has definitely soured. I'll also watch David Szalay interviews just so I can decide what I really feel about Istvan's journey.