Melissa Rivero

Dec 20, 2023 | kansascity.com | Melissa Rivero

In Melissa Rivero's lively "Flores and Miss Paula," a mother and her grown daughter share a Brooklyn apartment that is too empty despite its modest size. As Rivero's second novel opens, Martín Flores, the loving husband and father who mediated between the two women, has been dead for three years. After he died, his widow Paula took a job she relishes at a discount store called DollaBills but her earnings don't cover the necessities.

Dec 13, 2023 | startribune.com | Melissa Rivero

In Melissa Rivero's lively "Flores and Miss Paula," a mother and her grown daughter share a Brooklyn apartment that is too empty despite its modest size. As Rivero's second novel opens, Martín Flores, the loving husband and father who mediated between the two women, has been dead for three years. After he died, his widow Paula took a job she relishes at a discount store called DollaBills but her earnings don't cover the necessities.

Dec 6, 2023 | entertainment-mag.com | Melissa Rivero

FLORES AND MISS PAULA, by Melissa RiveroMelissa Rivero’s sophomore novel, “Flores and Miss Paula,”isa familiar, if uneven, tale of generational disapproval and resentment. We meet Paula Flores, a Peruvian-born, religious mother, and Monica, her millennial daughter, who browses hookup apps and juggles enormous student loan debt. The two have one thing in common: They’re grieving the loss of the family’s father and husband, Martin Flores, who died of cancer three years earlier.

Dec 5, 2023 | datebook.sfchronicle.com | Anthony Veasna So |Melissa Rivero |Vanessa Chan |Naomi Kanakia

Close out 2023 and usher in 2024 with absorbing reads that entertain, enlighten and memorialize. Photo: Jose Miguel Sanchez/Getty ImagesWinter is a season of transition, and the spirit certainly applies to the new batch of books readers can look forward to. As 2023 ends and 2024 begins, unsung and underrepresented writers are coming to the fore, with titles that offer fresh perspectives on history, community and all that it means to be human.

Aug 31, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | Melissa Rivero |Mitch Albom |Susan Mallery

An abundance of heart makes up for underdeveloped side plots in this story of life after loss. In gentrifying Brooklyn, a mother and daughter grapple with the death of their small family's patriarch and the ways his death cause them to reconsider their lives and values. Three years after the death of 33-year-old Mónica Flores’ father, Martín, Mónica finds a small piece of paper tucked under his urn in the Brooklyn home she shares with her 63-year-old mother, Paula.