# LOCA

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- Authors: [Alejandro Heredia](https://www.bookquiver.com/alejandro-heredia)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2026-07-02

## Description

Longlisted for the Center of Fiction First Novel Prize 2025 It's 1999, and best friends Sal and Charo are striving to hold on to their dreams in a New York determined to grind them down. Sal is a book-loving science nerd trying to grow beyond his dead-end job in a new city, but he's held back by tragic memories from his past in Santo Domingo. Free-spirited Charo is surprised to find herself a mother at twenty-five, partnered with a controlling man, working at the same supermarket for years, her world shrunk to the very domesticity she thought she'd escaped in her old country. When Sal finds love at a gay club one night, both his and Charo's worlds unexpectedly open up to a vibrant social circle that pushes them to reckon with what they owe to their own selves, pasts, futures, and, always, each other.

## Editions

### LOCA

- Publisher: jacaranda_books
- ISBN: 978-18-0675-021-4
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2026-07-02
- Language: en_GB