The Weight of Choosing - 

El Peso de Elegir

The Weight of Choosing (English) -- Six Latino friends in their sixties watch their aging parents navigate the final chapters of life and discover that the hardest conversations are the ones that matter most. A Cuban-American therapist who can't help her own mother. A Mexican engineer whose solutions can't fix his father's failing heart. A Colombian architect unable to blueprint her way through grief. A Salvadoran executive treating her father's Alzheimer's like a business problem. As each friend confronts impossible choices between honoring cultural traditions and accepting American healthcare realities, they form an unlikely death-with-dignity pact — learning that planning for death isn't about giving up. It's about choosing how to love. Set in contemporary San Diego, spanning three generations.

El Peso de Elegir (Spanish) — Cuando Esperanza, una psicóloga bogotana de 63 años, encuentra a su madre perdida en las calles de Chapinero, se da cuenta de que todas sus herramientas profesionales no la prepararon para ser simplemente una hija enfrentando lo inevitable. En el mismo momento, por toda Bogotá, otros profesionales exitosos descubren que su expertise no los protege del dolor más universal: ver envejecer y morir a quienes aman. Carlos Alberto, un ingeniero que siempre encontró soluciones técnicas, se enfrenta a un padre que rechaza la cirugía cardíaca. Ana, una arquitecta acostumbrada a controlar cada detalle, debe aceptar que su madre elige cuidados paliativos. Lo que comienza como una serie de crisis familiares separadas se transforma en algo extraordinario: un grupo de apoyo que se reúne cada miércoles, donde profesionales acostumbrados a arreglar problemas aprenden el arte más difícil de todos — acompañar sin controlar, amar soltando. Una novela profundamente colombiana sobre el "Pacto de los Ochenta" y cómo vivir plenamente cuando aceptamos que la vida tiene límites. 

Spanish set in Bogotá · English set in San Diego · Two novels, one conversation about mortality Para lectores de Isabel Allende y Héctor Abad Faciolince · For readers of Being Mortal and Crying in H Mart

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Things We Carry -

Hilos Invisibles

Three novellas, each narrated by a ten-year-old navigating a world larger and more dangerous than adults want to admit. Together they form a meditation on what children carry — and what they pass on — when the ordinary world reveals its hidden architecture of resistance, loss, and inheritance.

Whispering Threads / Hilos que Susurran In a household shadowed by a father who works for a repressive municipal office, young Marcela discovers that her mother's old Singer sewing machine carries a quiet ancestral wisdom. Through whispered lessons in stitches — three for strength, seven for safe passage, nine for secrets — she learns how women in their community sew protection into ordinary garments. As neighbors begin to disappear, her mother Inés joins a hidden network of seamstresses encoding escape routes into wedding dresses, communion clothes, and everyday mending. When violence erupts at home, the family flees in the night guided by maps hidden in silk. In exile, the absence of the Singer feels like the loss of a living guardian — yet its teachings remain in their hands. A story about how domestic craft becomes quiet defiance, and how mothers pass on both skill and courage stitch by stitch.

The River's Time / El Tiempo del Río After the death of their grandmother Elena, Sofía and her family discover that the quiet farm woman who painted modest watercolors was also Isabel Río — an internationally recognized artist who secretly sold work to sustain the family farm for decades. Gallery owners and art experts descend on their rural kitchen, turning private grief into public scrutiny. Sofía watches her mother juggle herbs for market with contracts and authentication papers, while her younger brother Miguel begins drawing images that eerily echo their grandmother's hidden vision. A mysterious Aleph above the kitchen door suggests that art, land, and time are braided together across generations. When experts uncover decades of secret exhibitions, the family must decide how to honor both identities: the grandmother who loved the soil and the artist who navigated the global art world.

A Different Game / Un Juego Diferente In a world organized entirely around winning — in school, sports, and social standing — a young narrator initially accepts the rules, believing achievement must come at someone else's expense. As tensions rise, the cracks become visible: small acts of exclusion, quiet compromises, the ease with which people trade integrity for advantage. Gradually, inspired by those who refuse to play by harsh rules, the narrator imagines another way forward — grounded in cooperation rather than conquest. The story closes not with a trophy but with a shift in perspective: a choice to redefine success as shared growth and the courage to step outside a rigged system. In doing so, the protagonist discovers that changing the game can matter more than winning it.

Spanish & English · Audiobook available 

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Rivers 

that Converge

In 2021, three researchers arrive in Colombia's Vaupés region expecting to conduct participatory research with Indigenous communities. They carry sophisticated methodologies, institutional support, and good intentions. What they don't expect is that the communities have been managing researchers for decades — and have developed their own sophisticated strategies for protecting what matters while satisfying institutional demands. Over five years, Carlos translates between Spanish, Cubeo, and English, calculating what the collaboration costs him: 28.8 million pesos in foregone income. Paloma writes two versions of her dissertation — one publishable, one honest. Gabriel repairs the satellite phone seven times, learning that partnership means showing up when technology fails, not documenting success. And Don Florentino teaches traditional governance without salary while his grandson Tomás faces the choice he's been preparing for since age twelve: which knowledge system to keep, which to abandon. Based on actual participatory research in Colombia's Vaupés region, this novel makes visible what academic papers cannot capture — the humor during technology failures, the frustration when rhetoric advances faster than structural change, and the care expressed through equipment repair. Five years proved convergence possible and revealed current institutional structures make it economically unsustainable. Both remain true.

For readers interested in Indigenous knowledge systems, collaborative research ethics, and stories about humans navigating impossible situations with humor and commitment. 

English · Literary fiction · Audiobook available 

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Las Marcas no se Borran

En 1977, en un pueblo atravesado por un río que divide clases y destinos, una joven archivista desaparece después de descubrir pruebas de despojo de tierras. Su investigación queda inconclusa. Sus documentos, dispersos. Su nombre, borrado de los registros oficiales. Casi cincuenta años después, su historia reaparece en manos de Carolina Martínez, una investigadora que hereda no solo cajas de papeles, grabaciones y fotografías, sino una pregunta incómoda: ¿qué hacer con una verdad que fue guardada para sobrevivir? Una novela coral narrada por mujeres que documentan, enseñan, marcan paredes, esconden archivos y esperan — recorriendo varias generaciones unidas por un mismo gesto: conservar pruebas cuando decir la verdad podía costar la vida. Esta novela funciona como novela previa a El Otro Lado del Río, ampliando el origen de los conflictos, los territorios y las historias que reaparecen en esa obra. Puede leerse de forma independiente, pero dialoga directamente con ella.

Spanish · Novela coral · Prequel to El Otro Lado del Río 

Para lectores de Isabel Allende, Héctor Abad Faciolince, Laura Restrepo. 

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El Otro Lado del Río

Esteban Ibáñez hereda un lote de su madre en Monteluce, el sector élite de Cajibó. Cuando decide vendérselo a Camilo Barreto, un constructor proveniente de La Pedriza — el barrio popular al otro lado del río — reactiva una división de cincuenta años. Dos hombres que cargan silencios: Esteban fue guerrillero en los ochenta, presenció violencia, desertó, nunca testimonió en la JEP. Camilo sirvió en la Armada destruyendo casas de civiles en operaciones antidroga. Tampoco habló ante la Comisión de la Verdad. Ambos intentan ahora su propia forma de reparación — construir algo juntos. La familia de Esteban lo acusa de traicionar su clase. La comunidad de Camilo lo ve como un desertor. El puente que construyen no cruza a todos. No resuelve todo. Pero existe. Y en un país que lleva décadas intentando cerrar heridas, eso es significativo. Una novela necesaria para la Colombia post-acuerdos — sobre cómo se construye la paz en lo cotidiano, cuando los procesos oficiales no alcanzan.

Spanish · Colombia contemporánea · Dialoga directamente con Las Marcas No Se Borran 

Ideal para lectores de Evelio Rosero, Héctor Abad Faciolince, Juan Gabriel Vásquez. 

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Los Que Se Fueron

Bogotá, 2025. Six former teachers from the prestigious Colegio San Telmo gather for the first time in four decades, summoned by the death of Aurelio — the seventh member of their group — who left behind a posthumous novel that none of them dares to read. Over a night that stretches until dawn, Abelardo, Helena, Santiago, Beatriz, Emigdio, and Camilo relive the "golden years" of the mid-1980s, when they were young idealist teachers in an elite school — teaching brilliant, arrogant boys, sons of Bogotá's upper class, in a garden where Japanese umbrellas bloomed and the rain destroyed them again and again.

But the memories are not as luminous as they'd like. The conversation drifts into uncomfortable territory: Padre Otto and the rumors never investigated. Felipe Ordóñez and his suicide years later. The signals they ignored. The questions they never asked. The shared guilt of having left — chasing revolutions and utopias — abandoning the students who needed them most. Meanwhile Abelardo keeps a secret that could change everything: twenty-three letters from seventeen former students, written over four decades, proving that those years did matter. Letters from an economist who learned to read between the lines, a doctor who found hope in the law of large numbers, an engineer who recovered his lost passion. But showing them would mean admitting they did something valuable — and if it was valuable, then leaving was unforgivable.

A choral novel about the contradictions of the teaching vocation, the paradoxes of privilege, and the impossibility of knowing whether our decisions were right until it is too late.

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The Paris Game - El Juego de Paris

Otros Delirios

After a stroke, Elena Arteaga enters a Bogotá hospital and discovers she is not alone. In its corridors, waiting rooms, and operating theaters live the people the system has discarded: those who died waiting for care, patients erased by bureaucracy, physicians broken by the machinery of healthcare administration. All of them marked by the clinical codes that reduce entire lives to initials and numbers.

A novel that crosses medical realism with the fantastical, social critique with family intimacy. Through a woman artist who learns to see the invisible, it exposes the everyday violence of healthcare systems and the human cost of institutional negligence — and asks how love persists even as memory unravels. For readers who want fiction that does what political analysis cannot: show what it feels like from the inside when the unthinkable becomes routine.

Literary fiction with magical realism · Spanish · 

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