Helena Maria Viramontes

Aug 6, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Helen Phillips |Helena Maria Viramontes |Alex Espinoza |Alison Espach

Amerie’s Book ClubThe book: Hum by Helen PhillipsOur reviewer says: "In this bracing speculative parable from Phillips, set in a near future devastated by climate change, a woman loses her job to the robots she helped build.... Readers won’t be able to look away." Read more.

Nov 6, 2023 | thecommononline.org | Helena Maria Viramontes

By HELENA MARÍA VIRAMONTESThis piece is an excerpt from The Cemetery Boys, a novel in progress. Sunday had arrived—Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work; but the seventh day is a Sabbath unto the Lord thy God—and brought with it a strong exhale that breezed over various labor camp sites of the San Joaquin Valley. Resourceful worshipers set up sanctified spaces and stretched borrowed tarps between sun-scorched oaks to contain the cool shade.