“There is love found within, in all its complicated configurations; relentlessly stalked by its opposing partner-pain. Relationships are spliced open by the sharp blade of poetry, exposing them from within, guts and all. It is up to the characters to put themselves back together again, as best they can.”
NOSTALGY is a quiet, introspective literary novel about emptiness, memory, and the dangerous pull of the past. It follows Alejandro, a successful Spanish executive living in Los Angeles whose life looks polished from the outside but feels hollow from within. Burned out by work, detached from love, and increasingly trapped inside his own thoughts, he returns to Spain hoping that old places, old friendships, and old versions of himself might give him back whatever he has lost.
In The Gatekeeper, Martha Cecilia Rivera writes poignant fiction to show the shameful reality that should be unacceptable in the daily life of any society. Firone Monse had everything he wanted, except Almanza. Falling in love late in life was supposed to be his redemption, but what if she didn’t feel the same way? Would he let her go, or turn to darker means?
