A Haunting In Hialeah Gardens

Now in paperback, a genre-bending debut with a fiercely political heart, A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens explores the weight of the devil’s bargain, following the lengths one man will go to for the promise of freedom.

Hugo Contreras’s world in Miami has shrunk. Since his wife died, Hugo's debt from her medical bills has become insurmountable. He shuffles between his efficiency apartment, La Carreta (his favorite place for a cafecito), and a botanica in a strip mall where he works as the resident babaláwo.
    One day, Hugo’s nemesis calls. Alexi Ramirez is a debt collector who has been hounding Hugo for years. Except this time Alexi is calling because he needs spiritual help. His house is haunted, and if Hugo can successfully cleanse his home before Noche Buena, Alexi will forgive Hugo’s debt. 
    But the job turns out to be more than Hugo bargained for. Soon, memories of his past—his childhood in the Bolivian silver mines and a fraught crossing into the United States as a boy—collide with Alexi’s demons in an explosive climax.
    Equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking, A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens explores questions of visibility, migration, and what we owe—to ourselves, our families, and our histories.