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Dec 9, 2024 | 
theskinny.co.uk | Andrés N Ordorica
Book title: Wandering Stars Author: Tommy Orange Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange is a transcendent novel about one family’s intergenerational pain and grief. Set across two centuries, the novel follows the Star family from the horrors of a massacre in 1865 to a shooting in 21st-century Oakland.
Orange offers an intimate exploration of his cast of characters who descend from the Cheyenne people as they navigate trauma and displacement.
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
theskinny.co.uk | Andrés N Ordorica
Book title: Napalm in the Heart Author: Pol Guasch Napalm in the Heart is a haunting and inventive debut novel by poet Pol Guasch. It's rich with imagery thanks to Mara Faye Lethem’s translation from Catalan which maintains Guasch’s poetic lyricism and haunting prose with evocative effect: 'And I fell asleep in that night that wasn’t yet fully night.' Beauty and brutality are woven throughout as two lovers try to find refuge against a Pinteresque backdrop of death and conflict.
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Jun 1, 2024 | 
bellacaledonia.org.uk | Jessica Gaitán Johannesson |Andrés N Ordorica
Fossil Free Books is a collective of book workers – authors, illustrators, translators, agents, booksellers and publishing staff – like us. We organise as equals and without internal hierarchy, without funding and alongside work and other commitments. We are the workforce that literary festivals rely on and we love sharing our work with readers. Many of us are based in Scotland, and act out of love for its literary spaces.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
booksfromscotland.com | Andrés N Ordorica |Ida Tarczynska
‘Although darkness can be scary, it also can be profound.’Set between the United States and México, Andrés N. Ordorica’s debut novel How We Named the Stars is a tender and lyrical exploration of belonging, grief, and first love―a love story for those so often written off the page. How We Named the StarsBy Andrés N. OrdoricaPublished by SarabandIf you asked me, I’d tell you: Cetus, the sea monster—which would no doubt prompt questions charged with panic and intrigue.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
booksfromscotland.com | Andrés N Ordorica
By (author) Andrés N. Ordorica ‘Hearing you say my name was a way of seeing myself as I had never seen myself … you gave my name new meaning, new weight.’Nerdy and shy, scholarship student Daniel de La Luna arrives at college nervous to meet his golden-haired, athletic roommate, whose Facebook photos depict a boy just like those who made Daniel’s school years hell. Sam Morris is not what he had imagined, though.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
theskinny.co.uk | Andrés N Ordorica
Book title: Some Strange Music Draws Me In Author: Griffin Hansbury Some Strange Music Draws Me In is a beautiful exploration of adolescence and ageing. Narrated by Max, a transgender man nearing 40, who has returned to his small town in Massachusetts to deal with his mother’s passing, this soulful coming-of-age story is contemplative, funny and harrowing.
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Mar 20, 2024 | 
barnesandnoble.com | Isabelle McConville |Taylor Jenkins Reid |Andrés N Ordorica |Madeleine Gray
It’s about that time — we’re only a month out from The Tortured Poets Department and we know you’re feeling just as antsy as we are. With no more Eras show links to flip between until May (featuring one of our favorite Album of the Month artists, Paramore, as the opener for her May dates) and radio silence from the pop princess on the album front, you need these Taylor Swift song-to-book recommendations just as much as we do. Please enable javascript to add items to the cart.
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Mar 1, 2024 | 
itsonlyzach.substack.com | James McBride |Andrés N Ordorica |Zach Wilcha
I don’t like to dwell on depressing things too much in this newsletter; generally I see it as a place for positive vibes about the books I want others to read. But this week, even in the midst of a work crisis, I can’t stop thinking of the story of Nex Benedict, the nonbinary 16-year old, Oklahoma student who died after being beaten in a bathroom in their high school.
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
barnesandnoble.com | Isabelle McConville |Dolly Alderton |Andrés N Ordorica |Kristin Hannah
The Reviews Are In! February 2024 EditionAfter hearing the great news from Punxsutawney Phil and subsequently having our friends in the Northeast get slammed by a snowstorm, we could all use a solid set of recs. From some of our very favorite B&N picks to delightful narrative nonfiction (with fabulous episodes on Poured Over) to a deep dive into one of our country’s most persistent mysteries, these are the best of the best from February. Please enable javascript to add items to the cart.
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Feb 12, 2024 | 
barnesandnoble.com | Andrés N Ordorica |Isabelle McConville
Share Share this page on Facebook Share this page on Twitter This month’s Discover author, Andrés N. Ordorica, penned an insightful essay for us on the inspiration for his debut novel, How We Named the Stars. A tender story of love and grief, Ordorica brings us behind the scenes of how his novel came to be. Here’s Andrés, in his own words.
