Anjanette Delgado is a Puerto Rican writer and journalist based in Miami. She is the author of The Heartbreak Pill: A Novel and The Clairvoyant of Calle Ocho. She has written for the New York Times “Modern Love” column, Vogue, NPR, HBO, the Kenyon Review, Pleiades, the Hong Kong Review, and others.
Delgado is the editor of the anthology Home in Florida: Latinx Writers and the Literature of Uprootedness.
At Electric Lit she tagged seven books for when your life has radically changed, including:
We, the Animals by Justin TorresRead about the other entries on the list.
We, the Animals is also a coming out and coming of age story with an immigrant family at its center, but here what threatens to uproot is family. It’s a home so infested with the culture of toxic masculinity that it kills its own. Yes, you will cry a little, curse a lot, but the way in which the narrator emerges from it all, will have you reading and rereading it for years to come.
--Marshal Zeringue
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