{"product_id":"brother-bronte-fernando-a-flores-paperback","title":"Brother Brontë -- Fernando A. Flores, Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Most Anticipated Book of 2025 by the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Town \u0026amp; Country\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAlta\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Flores's style has an exhilarating punk, D.I.Y. aplomb; it's as if he feels he's inventing literature for the first time.\" --Mark Leyner, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Flores's fiction possesses the aspect of a dream.\" --David L. Ulin, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"This crazy, cakey world-making of Fernando A. Flores is all of literature: wide, plaintive, melancholy, and full of feminist fellow joyousness and ways . . . Hated this world ending. I want more.\" --Eileen Myles \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTwo women fight to save their dystopian border town--and literature--in this gonzo near-future adventure. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe year is 2038, and the formerly bustling town of Three Rivers, Texas, is a surreal wasteland. Under the authoritarian thumb of its tech industrialist mayor, Pablo Henry Crick, the town has outlawed reading and forced most of its mothers to work as indentured laborers at the Big Tex Fish Cannery, which poisons the atmosphere and lines Crick's pockets. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eScraping by in this godforsaken landscape are best friends Proserpina and Neftalí. One of Three Rivers' last literate citizens, Neftalí hides and reads the books of the mysterious renegade author Jazzmin Monelle Rivas, whose last novel, \u003ci\u003eBrother Brontë\u003c\/i\u003e, is finally in Neftalí's possession. But after a series of increasingly violent atrocities committed by Crick's forces, Neftalí and Proserpina, with the help of a wounded Bengal tigress, three scheming triplets, and an underground network of rebel tías, rise up to reclaim their city--and in the process, unlock Rivas's connection to Three Rivers itself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn adventure that only the acclaimed Fernando A. Flores could dream up, \u003ci\u003eBrother Brontë\u003c\/i\u003e is a mordant, gonzo romp through a ruined world that, in its dysfunction, tyranny, and disparity, feels uncannily like our own. With his most ambitious book yet, Flores once again bends what fiction can do, in the process crafting a moving and unforgettable story of perseverance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Fernando A. Flores\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/10\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250419927\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFernando A. Flores\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico, and grew up in South Texas. He is the author of the short-story collections \u003ci\u003eValleyesque\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDeath to the Bullshit Artists of South Texas\u003c\/i\u003e and the novel \u003ci\u003eTears of the Trufflepig\u003c\/i\u003e, which was long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and was named a Best Book of 2019 by \u003ci\u003eTor.com\u003c\/i\u003e. His fiction has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Short Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003efrieze\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePorter House Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and other publications. He lives in Austin, Texas.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fernando A. Flores","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47893104394468,"sku":"9781250419927","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9781250419927.jpg?v=1777375170","url":"https:\/\/bookandmortar.com\/products\/brother-bronte-fernando-a-flores-paperback","provider":"BookandMortar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}