Eight stunning historical novels by Latine writers

Carolina Ciucci is a teacher, writer and reviewer based in the south of Argentina. She hoards books like they’re going out of style. In case of emergency, you can summon her by talking about Ireland, fictional witches, and the Brontë family. At Book Riot she tagged eight top Latine historical fiction titles. One novel on the list:

On a Night of a Thousand Stars by Andrea Yaryura Clark

Paloma Larrea lives a perfect life with her parents in New York. But soon, a comment from an old schoolmate of her father’s leads her to question his past. A search through her parents’ lives during the last dictatorship in Argentina, aided by an activist group made up of the children of those who were forcibly disappeared, soon leads her to question her identity as well.

Read about another novel on the list.

Q&A with Andrea Yaryura Clark.

My Book, The Movie: On a Night of a Thousand Stars.

The Page 69 Test: On a Night of a Thousand Stars.

--Marshal Zeringue