Damnificados

Winner: Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Debut Fiction
Winner: Independent Publisher Book Award for Multicultural Fiction
Winner: New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for Fiction
Winner: Prix SGDL Révélation de Traduction (French edition)
Finalist: Eric Hoffer Book Award
Finalist: Foreword INDIES Book Award
Nominated for an American Book Award
"O" The Oprah Magazine: Top 10 Books to Pick Up Now
No. 1 pick: 5 Small Press Books to Read, BookRiot, 2016

Uses magical realism, revolutionary politics, and romantic adventure to bring to life a colorful community of squatters in an imaginary Latin American city
 
Damnificados is loosely based on the real-life occupation of a half-completed skyscraper in Caracas, Venezuela, the Tower of David. In this fictional version, 600 “damnificados”—vagabonds and misfits—take over an abandoned urban tower and set up a community complete with schools, stores, beauty salons, bakeries, and a rag-tag defensive militia. Their always heroic (and often hilarious) struggle for survival and dignity pits them against corrupt police, the brutal military, and the tyrannical “owners.” Taking place in an unnamed country at an unspecified time, the novel has elements of magical realism: avenging wolves, biblical floods, massacres involving multilingual ghosts, arrow showers falling to the tune of Beethoven’s Ninth, and a trash truck acting as a Trojan horse.

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