Loca: A Novel by Alejandro Heredia

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It's 1999, and best friends Sal and Charo are striving to hold onto their dreams in a New York determined to grind them down. Sal, a book-loving science nerd from Santo Domingo, is held back from moving forward by the tragic loss of his best friend and the weight of a painful, unspoken past. Charo, meanwhile, is a young mother caught between the traditional expectations she fled the Dominican Republic to escape and the new life she's trying to build for herself in the Bronx — one that increasingly pulls her away from her baby's father and toward her found queer community.

Told through interwoven timelines that move between 1999 New York and pivotal moments from Sal and Charo's shared childhood in Santo Domingo, the novel gradually reveals the layers of trauma, love, and loyalty that bind the two friends together. Grounded in the historical texture of its era — from Hurricane Floyd to the emerging awareness of HIV/AIDS — Loca traces how far a person must travel, geographically and emotionally, to become who they're meant to be, and what it costs to leave people and places behind in the process.

Why Choose This Book?

• Praised by Elizabeth Acevedo as tender, brilliant, and written "with ferocity and warmth"
• Called by Rumaan Alam "a quintessentially American novel" that is queer, Dominican, and Spanglish all at once
• A remarkable literary debut spanning Santo Domingo and the Bronx across dual timelines
• Explores queerness, chosen family, motherhood, and migration with emotional depth
• From a Bronx-born writer and Lambda Literary fellow, marking a striking new voice in contemporary fiction

About the Author: Alejandro Heredia

Alejandro Heredia is a writer from the Bronx who has received fellowships from LAMBDA Literary, the Dominican Studies Institute, and UNLV's Black Mountain Institute, among others. He holds an MFA in fiction from Hunter College, and Loca is his debut novel.

Who Should Read This Book?

• Readers who enjoy literary fiction exploring queerness, identity, and immigrant experience
• Fans of Afro-Latinx and Dominican-American storytelling
• Anyone drawn to dual-timeline novels about friendship, memory, and chosen family
• Fans of Elizabeth Acevedo, Xochitl Gonzalez, or Justin Torres
• Book club groups looking for a rich, emotionally resonant literary debut

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