The Volcano Daughters
“Gina María Balibrera's debut novel, “The Volcano Daughters,” spits fire from its very first page just as the fevered mountain of Izalco has flung brimstone for much of El Salvador's volatile history. This is an epic story, a remarkable achievement for a writer making her first foray into the literary landscape. Balibrera demonstrates a fearlessness that is rare”
The Volcano Daughters
Paperback coming July 2025 from Pantheon Books
A saucy, searingly original debut about two sisters raised in the shadow of El Salvador's brutal dictator, El Gran Pendejo, and their flight from genocide, which takes them from Hollywood to Paris to cannery row, each followed by a chorus of furies, the ghosts of their murdered friends, who aren't yet done telling their stories.