Fiction – Literary – Hispanic and Latino – LGBTQ+

RELEASE DATE: 10/7/2025 (WILL SHIP DIRECTLY FROM OUR SUPPLIER’S WAREHOUSE)

“An insultingly good debut” following a queer Chicanos cannon-shot into adulthood amidst familial turmoil and the suffocating violence of Stockton, California in the early 2000s (Ruth Madievsky).

Cra cuervos y te sacaran los ojos: Raise crows and theyll take out your eyes.

Since the age of seven, Christian has been under the thumb of a curse. He reads its dark signs everywhere: in his bedridden mothers wilting plants; in his brothers estrangement; in his fathers eager fists and glassy stare. He reads it in his nightmares, in Stocktons soundtrack of sirens and gunshot. Above all, he reads the curse in the mirror, watching himself turn into the crow his father always predicted hed become.

Maddened by the citys heatwaves and his own unthinkable desires, often high and drunk, Christian rips through his neighborhood, desperate to escape not only the city but the monster of his pain. But even when he leaves, the curse follows. Can Christian ever be absolved? Or is he condemned to be consumed by the same violence as his father?

And Ill Take Out Your Eyesis a defiant, shattering portrait of self-discovery in the face of violence, mental illness, and other dark inheritances. In a lyric, circuit-bending onslaught of ragers and laments, A. M. Sosa delivers a redemptive storyand an unforgettable debut.

AUTHOR BIO:

A. M. Sosa (they/them)is a queer Mexican-American writer from Stockton, CA, and a recent graduate of UC Irvine’s MFA Programs in Writing where they were awarded the 2022 Henfield Prize. In 2023, they were named a Tin House scholar. Their fiction has been published in Zyzzyva and the Santa Monica Review.

“Poetic, defiant, and unflinching,And I’ll Take Out Your Eyesis incendiary from the opening paragraph, and never relents. A.M. Sosa is a young writer to watch.”–Jonathan Evison, author of Lawn Boy and The Heart of Winter