Each month, Debutiful will recommend a handful of buzzworthy and under-the-radar debut books for you to read.
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Inside the immigration experience of Melissa Rivero and ‘The Affairs of the Falcóns’
Melissa Rivero was a lawyer in New York City unsatisfied with how her career was not fulfilling her soul’s needs. She knew she wanted something different when she started writing scenes influenced by an incident that happened to her mother.
The result became The Affairs of the Falcóns, a study into how immigration policies effect us all. The characters in the book are Peruvian, just like Rivero and her family. However, the family’s story in her debut novel is not a retelling of her life. Instead, she took information from her mother’s life and reimagined it into a bigger story that reaches beyond her singular experience.
I spoke with the lawyer-turned-writer about Peru, growing us as an “other,” and how the Falcóns came to be.
Read morEWil Medearis discusses gentrification, art, and murder in his debut ‘Restoration Heights’
In his debut novel Restoration Heights, Wil Medearis explore gentrification through a murder noir set in the Brooklyn art world. The conglomerate of ideas came to the author over a series of events spread across years.
In the novel, a young art handler is the last to see a woman alive and becomes captivated by what happened to her. He becomes a sleuth trying to piece together her disappearance. Medearis himself has a background in art and watched his Brooklyn neighborhood change rapidly before his eyes.
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