Juliana Delgado Lopera - Fiebre Tropical

PRAISE FOR FIEBRE TROPICAL

Inventive and heady mixture of Spanish and English.

WHITE REVIEW

Fiebre Tropical is a story of migration, queerness, brokenness, and love. Juliana Delgado Lopera has written a novel across borders that buzzes with verve, fierceness, and raw emotion. She forks her tongue for this book, weaving English and Spanish in inspired and irreverent prose. This book is absolute music to my ears.

INGRID ROJAS CONTRERAS, author of

Fruit of the Drunken Tree: A Novel

Ay Dios mo! This books got tumbao. With energetic prose and a sharp sense of humor, Delgado Lopera brings us a queer coming-of-age tale that explores diasporic identity from Bogot to Miami, and the complicated ways that religious fervor impacts same-sex desire and ones relationship to community. Delgado Loperas eye for detail is fierce, and this novel is easy to devour.

JOSEPH CASSARA, author of

The House of Impossible Beauties: A Novel

Lit by neon Miami sunsets and the hot glow of the Christian apocalypse, Fiebre Tropical is a literary explosion filled with sweaty Jesus-crazed teens, fainting churchgoers, powerful melodramatic mothers, and drunken grandmothers. In a rollicking, multilingual prose both wise and irreverent, brimming with snark and queer humor, Juliana Delgado Lopera crafts a coming-of-age tale, a coming-out tale, a migration tale weve never read and badly need.

MICHELLE TEA, author of

Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions & Criticisms

When you drive around town, when you stare out the window, when you wake up in the middle of the night, whether you know it or not, you are waiting for a book like this. Fiebre Tropical is a triumph, and were all triumphant in its presence.

DANIEL HANDLER, author of

Bottle Grove: A Novel

Delgado Loperas riveting new book is propelled as much by its hurricane-force language as by its unforgettable characters: storm-tossed women making the best of their new lives in a new country. This queer coming-of-age novel explores first love, but it also looks at the myriad ways humans find solace and connection.

CAROLINE PAUL, author of

You Are Mighty: A Guide to Changing the World

Fiebre Tropical is a magnificent novel, by turns electric, hilarious, sexy, thrilling, wrenching, and profound. Pa decirlo clarito: Juliana Delgado Lopera is a writer of explosive talent, and this book is a fierce and radiant contribution to queer literature, Latinx literature, and immigrant literature, yes, but also to literature, punto.

CAROLINA DE ROBERTIS, author of

Cantoras: A Novel

Breathless, hungry, funny, funthe new immigrant novel in a knowing, see-all Colombian lesbian voice. Juliana Delgado Lopera does for American literature what Philip Roth did a half century ago: wakes it up! Sacrilegious in the best way, loving, this novel is much needed and alive.

SARAH SCHULMAN, author of

Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair

Gorgeously written, tragic and hilarious by turns, Fiebre Tropical is the tale of a teenager from Bogot coming to the United States and coming of age. But more than that, its about a crumbling family of matriarchs gone crazy for religion, and the soul-saving, soul-crushing power of first love. Delgado Loperas voice prickles with tears, outrage, and sharp details that make us believe in her characters, and more importantly, to believe in their survival.

ANNALEE NEWITZ, author of

Autonomous: A Novel

FIEBRE TROPICAL

A NOVEL BY

JULIANA DELGADO LOPERA

Published in 2020 by the Feminist Press

at the City University of New York

The Graduate Center

365 Fifth Avenue, Suite 5406

New York, NY 10016

feministpress.org

First Feminist Press edition 2020

Copyright 2020 by Juliana Delgado Lopera

All rights reserved.