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Vulnerable, forlorn, and stuck in the mud of an uncertain future, the characters in these stories lack the resources to make ends meet, yet are rich in grit, tenderness, and the scent of the sea breeze. Levittown Mon Amour renders a stirring portrait of the failure of the American dream in Puerto Rico.
Cezanne Cardona Morales is a Puerto Rican writer, professor, and columnist. In 2018 he published Levittown mon amour, a short-story collection, and won the New Voices Award from Puerto Rico’s Festival de la Palabra and the National Prize of Instituto de Literatura Puertorriqueña. He is also the author of an essay collection,Leer antes de usar (Folium, 2024), and a novel,Esto también es una casa (Seix Barral, 2025).
Alejandro Álvarez Nieves is a writer, translator, and professor in the Graduate Program in Translation at the University of Puerto Rico. He has published the poetry collections El proceso traductor (Libros AC, 2012; Pulpo, 2025) and Quiebre de Armas (Trabalis Editores, 2018), as well as the short story collection Galería de comandos (Ediciones Alayubia, 2019). His translations have appeared in World Poetry and Poetry Review. Alejandro published the first English translation of Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro’s Negras in 2022 and his Spanish translation of Ntozake Shange’s Wild Beauty (Atria Books, 2017) earned him the 2018 International Latino Book Award in the Spanish translation category.