<div>The Pulitzer Prize&ndash;finalist&rsquo;s intimate autobiographical novel of a marriage cut tragically short is &ldquo;a beautiful love story, and an extraordinary story of loss&rdquo; (Colm T&oacute;ib&iacute;n). In 2005, celebrated novelist Francisco Goldman married Aura Estrada. The two were deeply in love, and Aura was a gifted young writer on the cusp of her own brilliant career. But while on vacation only a month before their second anniversary, Aura died in a tragic accident. In Say Her Name, Goldman pours his feelings of love and unspeakable grief into a fictionalized account of their brief time together. Desperate to keep Aura alive in his memory, Goldman collects everything he can about her, delving deeply into the writings she left behind. From her childhood and university days in Mexico City to her studies at Columbia University, through the couple&rsquo;s time in New York City and travels to Europe, Goldman composes a vivid and multifaceted portrait. Filled with &ldquo;propulsive drama&rdquo; (The Boston Globe), Say Her Name is a tribute to who Aura Estrada was and who she would&rsquo;ve been, that &ldquo;will also transport you into the most primal joy in the human repertoire&mdash;the joy of loving&mdash;and reveal it with aching vibrancy&rdquo; (San Francisco Chronicle).</div>

Say Her Name

<div>In this acclaimed novel, the Pulitzer Prize&ndash;finalist explores the perils, passions, and adventures of a young Nicaraguan immigrant trapped in Brooklyn. Named a Best Book of the Year by Newsday, the Los Angeles Times Book Review, the Chicago Tribune, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and Publishers Weekly In the late 1980s, teenage Sandinista soldier and avowed communist Esteban Gait&aacute;n leaves Nicaragua to begin a new life in America. He soon arrives on a desolate Brooklyn pier with fourteen other men to form the crew of the ship Urus. Elias and Mark, the owners of the Urus, hold the men captive, forcing them to work in a vain attempt to make the rotting vessel seaworthy. Without the means to return home, Esteban remains a virtual prisoner, haunted by the loss of the woman he loved during the war. Eventually learning how to sneak off the ship, he makes nocturnal forays into Brooklyn, where he meets a Mexican immigrant named Joaquina, and begins to plot his permanent escape. Centering his novel around Esteban, but also telling the stories of his fellow landlocked sailors, Francisco Goldman proves once again that he is &ldquo;a major talent of great style and soul&rdquo; (The Miami Herald). &ldquo;Often very funny . . . Here, a corner of Brooklyn becomes the exotic and foreign experience, and through Esteban&rsquo;s eyes it is as mysterious and alluring as Tangiers.&rdquo; &mdash;The Dallas Morning News</div>

The Ordinary Seaman

<div>This acclaimed novel by the Pulitzer Prize&ndash;finalist is &ldquo;at once a story about a boy growing up in two cultures, a love story, and a mystery&rdquo; (The Boston Globe). Winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction, The Long Night of White Chickens announced Francisco Goldman&rsquo;s arrival as a major literary talent. It is both a suspenseful mystery and a tale of two worlds that plumbs the darkest depths of the relationship between the United States and Guatemala. Goldman tells the story of Roger Graetz, raised in a Boston suburb by an aristocratic Guatemalan mother and Jewish father, and Flor de Mayo, the beautiful young Guatemalan orphan who lives with the family as a maid. Similar in age, Roger and Flor become close, and remain so even after she leaves to attend college at Wellesley. After graduation, however, Flor returns home to Guatemala City, where she heads a local orphanage that arranges international adoptions. When she&rsquo;s murdered, Roger is stunned and can&rsquo;t believe the rumors he hears about her life. Years later, he travels to Guatemala to uncover the circumstances around Flor&rsquo;s mysterious death in this &ldquo;wonderful book&rdquo; that is as &ldquo;complex as history, funny as love, painful as death&rdquo; (The Washington Post Book World). &ldquo;A richly layered, genre-busting novel that shuttles between suburban Boston and Guatemala City and devours everything in its path.&rdquo; &mdash;Jay McInerney, author of Bright Lights, Big City</div>

The Long Night of White Chickens

<div>The Pulitzer Prize&ndash;finalist shares an intimate memoir of grieving his lost wife&mdash;and confronting the troubled Mexican city where she grew up. Five years after his wife&rsquo;s untimely death, Francisco Goldman decided to overcome his fear of driving in Mexico City. The widower and award-winning writer wanted to fully embrace his late wife&rsquo;s childhood home and the city that came to mean so much to them. In The Interior Circuit, Goldman chronicles his personal and political awakening to the nuances of this unique city as he learns to navigate the &ldquo;circuito interior,&rdquo; its crisscrossing network of highway-like roads. Many regard Mexico&rsquo;s capital&mdash;then known as the &ldquo;DF&rdquo; or Distrito Federal&mdash;as a haven from the social ills that plague the rest of the country. Goldman&rsquo;s account reveals a more complicated truth as he explores the effects of Mexico&rsquo;s raging narco war, the resurgence of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (the PRI), and new eruptions of organized crime-related violence. Part travelogue, part memoir, and part political reportage, The Interior Circuit &ldquo;is so sneakily brilliant it&rsquo;s hard to put into words. . . . It is also, in the finest sense, a book that creates its own form&rdquo; (Los Angeles Times).</div>

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The Interior Circuit

<div>In this New York Times Notable Book, the Pulitzer Prize&ndash;finalist undertakes his own investigation into the murder of a Guatemalan bishop. Named a Best Book of the Year by the Washington Post Book World, the Chicago Tribune, the Economist, and the San Francisco Chronicle Two days after releasing a groundbreaking church-sponsored report implicating the military in the murders and disappearances of some two hundred thousand Guatemalan civilians, Bishop Juan Gerardi was bludgeoned to death in his garage. Gerardi was the country&rsquo;s leading human rights activist, but the Church quickly realized it could not rely on police investigators or the legal system to solve the crime. Instead, Church leaders formed their own investigative team: a group of secular young men who called themselves Los Intocables&mdash;the Untouchables. Author Francisco Goldman spoke to witnesses no other reporter was able to reach, observing firsthand some of the most crucial developments in this sensational case. Documenting the Latin American reality of mara youth gangs and organized crime, The Art of Political Murder tells the incredible true story of Los Intocables and their remarkable fight for justice. &ldquo;Becoming by turns a little bit Columbo, Jason Bourne and Seymour Hersh, Goldman gives us the anatomy of a crime while opening a window to a misunderstood neighboring country that is flirting with anarchy.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times Book Review</div>

The Art of Political Murder

<div>A devout woman finds herself adrift in late nineteenth&ndash;century Central America in this novel of &ldquo;deep imagination, stylistic verve, and psychological acuity&rdquo; (The Washington Post). Set in late nineteenth century Central America and New York City, The Divine Husband tells the story of Mar&iacute;a de las Nieves Moran, whose brief career as a nun is ended in the wake of revolution. Forced to make her way in the secular world, Mar&iacute;a is surrounded by an unforgettable cast of characters: Jos&eacute; Mart&iacute;, the poet and hero of Cuban independence and the first man Mar&iacute;a loves; Mack Chinchilla, the Yankee-Indio entrepreneur intent on winning her hand; a British diplomat setting up a political impostor plot; and Mathilde, the daughter whose birth&mdash;perhaps fathered by one of these men&mdash;ruins Mar&iacute;a&rsquo;s reputation and launches her on a journey toward a new future. This joyfully imagined novel of ideas is populated by Indian girls, wandering Jewish coffee farmers, the founder of the rubber-balloon industry, and one of Latin America&rsquo;s greatest and most complex men. Written by Pulitzer Prize&ndash;finalist Francisco Goldman, The Divine Husband is a sweeping, poetic novel rich in historical detail and vivid characterization. &ldquo;Goldman echoes Flaubert, Garc&iacute;a Marquez, and even DeLillo.&rdquo; &mdash;Bookforum</div>

The Divine Husband

<div>A Guatemalan-American writer returns to the Boston suburb of his youth in this American Book Award–winning novel “full of rebellious comedy and vitality” (New Yorker). A 2022 Pulitzer Prize Finalist In Monkey Boy, Francisco Goldman’s “brilliantly constructed auto-fiction” (NPR), we meet Francisco Goldberg, a middle-aged writer grappling with the challenges of family and love, legacies of violence and war, and growing up as the son of immigrants. Having fled Mexico after his journalism provokes the wrong people, Goldberg’s attempt to start fresh in New York. But even as he finds himself falling in love, he is drawn away yet again—back to his childhood home in the white, working-class suburbs of Boston. Frankie is beckoned there by a high school girlfriend who witnessed his youthful humiliations, and by his ailing mother, Yolanda, whose intermittent lucidity unearths forgotten pockets of the past. His brief trip is haunted by memories of his recently deceased father, the Guatemalan woman who helped raise him, and the high school bullies who called him “monkey boy.”</div>

Monkey Boy

<div>Thirty years of interviews that offer &ldquo;a window into the minds and the writing processes of some of the world&rsquo;s best practitioners of poetry and prose&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Since 1981, the quarterly magazine Bomb has been the gold standard for artist-on-artist interviews, showcasing writers, performers, actors, musicians, painters, and architects. The founders, a group of New York City&ndash;based artists, wanted a public space for art-makers to talk to each other about their work without the interference of critics or journalists. Thirty years later comes this anthology: an addictively insightful collection of thirty-five interviews with some of the world&rsquo;s most thought-provoking, funny, profound, compelling authors. It includes literary luminaries such as Mary Gaitskill, Junot D&iacute;az, Sharon Olds, Amy Hempel, Martin Amis, Jeffrey Eugenides, Sapphire, Edwidge Danticat, and Jennifer Egan, among many others, as well as an introduction by Francine Prose. These authors speak frankly about the joys and the pain that inform their work, the influence of family, ambition, criticism, and the sinking, thrilling knowledge of their own mortality. This is Bomb Magazine&rsquo;s gift to readers: a glimpse into the minds that created the books which informed you, challenged you, yanked on your heartstrings and touched your soul. &ldquo;Bomb: The Author Interviews brings together a selection of conversations in a handsome anthology. The book, which offers 35 of the magazine&rsquo;s interviews, is both a primer on authorial strategies and a record of the evolution of an iconic literary institution.&rdquo; &mdash;The Washington Post &ldquo;BOMB&rsquo;s author interview series, which has been going for years, is one of the most inspiring dialogues between writers available.&rdquo; &mdash;Bustle &ldquo;These are not your run of the mill author interviews featuring a journalist throwing canned questions at a writer, these are conversations between writers and delve into the essence of creativity . . . Essential reading for any admirer of contemporary literature.&rdquo; &mdash;Seattle Post-Intelligencer </div>

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Books By Francisco Goldman (7 Books)

Say Her Name

The Ordinary Seaman

The Long Night of White Chickens

The Interior Circuit

The Art of Political Murder

The Divine Husband

Monkey Boy

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Books By Francisco Goldman (7 Books)

Say Her Name

The Ordinary Seaman

The Long Night of White Chickens

The Interior Circuit

The Art of Political Murder

The Divine Husband

Monkey Boy

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