Brando Skyhorse

2 months ago | electricliterature.com | Danzy Senna |Charles Yu |Nafissa Thompson-Spires |Brando Skyhorse

Literary merit has, for generations, been viewed as synonymous with gravitas, solemnity, and not smiling in your author photo. This especially holds true for books that tackle the topic of race (because it’s always a “tackling”), which readers often crack open expecting to be educated or to cry.

Jul 4, 2024 | shereads.com | Rachel Khong |Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah |R.F. Kuang |Brando Skyhorse

For Fourth of July we decided to draft a list of Great American Novels that set the tone for today’s America. These novels capture the diversity, spirit, and complexity of our nation, reflecting the tapestry that is known as American life. From personal triumph tales to cultural heritage to pursuing the American Dream, these new Great American Novels are must-reads for anyone looking to celebrate Independence Day by reading.

Sep 15, 2023 | offtheshelf.com | Katya Buresh |Alice Martin |Sarah Walsh |Brando Skyhorse

Brando Skyhorse, the PEN/Hemingway Award–winning author of The Madonnas of Echo Park, returns with a riveting literary dystopian novel set in a near-future America where mandatory identification wristbands make second-generation immigrants into second-class citizens—a powerful family saga for readers of Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West and Rumaan Alam’s Leave the World Behind. Iris Prince is starting over.

Aug 18, 2023 | lithub.com | Brando Skyhorse

This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. About seven years ago, I started a novel called La Niña, about a single woman named Maribel Nava who finds a baby left on her doorstep. This month, I published a novel called My Name Is Iris, about a just-divorced mother named Iris Prince who wakes one morning to a wall that has appeared in her front yard overnight. These projects are, in fact, the same book. How did this happen?

Aug 2, 2023 | newspub.live | Brando Skyhorse

MY NAME IS IRIS, by Brando SkyhorseIn Brando Skyhorse’s second novel, a conservative Mexican American woman in an unnamed border state rebuilds her life after divorce, in an America that has become an increasingly dangerous white supremacist society. Iris Prince believes that following the rules will save her from racism — that if she makes herself as benign and palatable as possible, she will thrive despite her brown skin and Mexican heritage.