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We recently posted on the finalists of the 2023 National Book Awards. Justin Torres—originally from Puerto Rico, based in California, and author of the highly-acclaimed We the Animals—is one of the finalists for the Fiction category for his novel Blackouts (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; October 2023). In his assessment of the novel, Hugh Ryan (The…
More than a decade after his debut, We the Animals, Justin Torres returns with a novel that centers on a deathbed conversation between two friends about the distortions and erasures of queer history.
More than a decade after his debut, We the Animals, Justin Torres returns with a novel that centers on a deathbed conversation between two friends about the distortions and erasures of queer history.
His second book, “Blackouts,” a finalist for the National Book Award, shifts between fact and fiction to tell an intergenerational story.
An interview by Lucy Berbeo for UCLA's Newsroom. The bestselling author and UCLA professor discusses his new novel, ‘Blackouts,’ and the writers inspiring him today. Justin Torres was just 31 years old when his first novel, “We the Animals,” caused a literary sensation. Narrated by a young boy of mixed heritage who is finding his way…