Brenda Navarro

'Stunning... An energetic and harrowing new voice.' Miriam Toews, author of All My Puny SorrowsA young man jumps five floors to his death. His sister tries to understand why. A searing novel about abandonment, belonging and migration, from an exciting new Latin American voice.Five floors, six seconds, a body crashing to the ground. When our narrator's younger brother, Diego, takes...

Empty Houses takes place in the aftermath of a shocking incident: a child has disappeared from the park where he was playing. In the days that follow, his mother is distraught. She is tormented by his absence but also by her own ambivalence: did she even want him in the first place? In a working-class neighbourhood on the other side...