Under the Borrachero Tree

The borrachero tree is the most beautiful danger in Colombia: white trumpet flowers that intoxicate anyone who lingers beneath them. It is also the perfect metaphor for a family whose creative lives have always braided inspiration with risk.

Across a century and three countries, this novel follows the Delgado family from the mountain studios of early 1900s Colombia to the immigrant neighborhoods of mid-century Canada and back again. Richard, a defiant young artist, builds a life with his wife Tita that is part art business, part family mythology. Their son Rigo returns to Colombia as an engineer, married to Yayo, a woman who juggles her own creative ambitions against the weight of family expectation. And their grandson Ricky carries the family’s restless idealism into revolution, professional life, and the compromises of building a home in the United States.

Don Quixote runs as a quiet thread throughout — the idealism of people who keep tilting at windmills across generations. The question the novel asks is not whether they succeed, but what survives the crossing: what is carried, what is lost, what is transformed beyond recognition.

Inspired by the author’s own family history, rendered as fiction.

English & Spanish 

Title in Spanish: Bajo el Borrachero

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The Weight of Choosing

The Weight of Choosing (English) -- Six Latino friends in their sixties watch their aging parents navigate the final chapters of life and discover that the hardest conversations are the ones that matter most. A Cuban-American therapist who can't help her own mother. A Mexican engineer whose solutions can't fix his father's failing heart. A Colombian architect unable to blueprint her way through grief. A Salvadoran executive treating her father's Alzheimer's like a business problem. As each friend confronts impossible choices between honoring cultural traditions and accepting American healthcare realities, they form an unlikely death-with-dignity pact — learning that planning for death isn't about giving up. It's about choosing how to love. Set in contemporary San Diego, spanning three generations.

El Peso de Elegir (Spanish) — Versión en Español, ambientada en Colombia. 

Una novela profundamente colombiana sobre el "Pacto de los Ochenta" y cómo vivir plenamente cuando aceptamos que la vida tiene límites. 

English and Spanish

Spanish set in Bogotá · English set in San Diego · Two novels, one conversation about mortality 

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Los Que Se Fueron

Aurelio is dead. The novel he left behind is not.

Bogotá, 2025. Six former teachers from the prestigious Colegio San Telmo gather for the first time in four decades, summoned by their seventh member’s death and the posthumous novel none of them dares to open. Aurelio was the idealist, the one who stayed when the others left for better salaries and safer lives. His novel, they suspect, is about them — about what they abandoned and who paid the price.

What begins as a book launch becomes a night of confessions. The chemistry teacher who looked the other way. The literature professor who taught safe classics instead of dangerous truths. The administrator who signed the paperwork that let the school’s mission quietly collapse. One by one, they confront the distance between who they meant to be and who they became — and whether Aurelio’s final act was testimony, accusation, or grace.

A novel about the invisible cost of leaving, and the unbearable weight of staying.

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Spanish: https://mybook.to/LosQueSeFueron

Las Cartas Perdidas

En una mañana fría de 1941, Ana Marta cose apresuradamente una fotografía suya en el forro del abrigo de su hijo Tomás, de apenas nueve años, antes de que su ex-esposo se lo lleve lejos de Budapest. Es una despedida que durará toda una vida. Mientras Europa se hunde en la guerra, Tomás cruza océanos hasta Colombia, desconociendo su herencia judía y el sacrificio de su madre para salvarlo. 

A lo largo de ochenta años, tres generaciones de la familia Shuk-Airdös recorrerán un laberinto de secretos, cartas nunca entregadas y recuerdos fragmentados — desde las montañas andinas hasta las orillas del Danubio. 

Una saga sobre las decisiones imposibles que tomamos por amor, las identidades que perdemos y encontramos en el exilio, y la tenacidad de la memoria familiar que persiste a pesar de guerras, océanos y silencios.

Historical Biographical Fiction

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Things We Carry

Three novellas, each narrated by a ten-year-old navigating a world larger and more dangerous than adults want to admit. Together they form a meditation on what children carry — and what they pass on — when the ordinary world reveals its hidden architecture of resistance, loss, and inheritance.

Whispering Threads / Hilos que Susurran — A girl discovers that her mother's Singer sewing machine holds ancestral wisdom: stitches that encode protection, and escape routes hidden in the seams of ordinary clothes.

The River's Time / El Tiempo del Río — After their grandmother's death, a family discovers she was secretly an internationally recognized artist who had quietly sustained the farm for decades — and that her hidden vision has already passed to the next generation.

A Different Game / Un Juego Diferente — In a world organized entirely around winning, a young narrator begins to imagine a different way forward — grounded in cooperation rather than conquest.

English & Spanish

Title in Spanish: Hilos Invisibles

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Rivers that Converge

Carlos has calculated exactly what five years of “participatory research” cost him: 28.8 million pesos in income he didn’t earn while translating between Spanish, Cubeo, and English for researchers who called him a “partner” but paid him like a contractor. Paloma has written two versions of her dissertation — one publishable, one honest. Gabriel has repaired the satellite phone seven times, learning that partnership means showing up when the technology fails, not documenting success. And Don Florentino has taught traditional governance for five years without a salary, while his grandson Tomás faces the choice he’s been preparing for since age twelve: which knowledge system to keep, which to abandon.

In 2021, three researchers arrived in Colombia’s Vaupés region expecting to conduct participatory research with Indigenous communities. They carried sophisticated methodologies, institutional support, and good intentions. What they didn’t expect was that the communities had been managing researchers for decades — and had developed their own strategies for protecting what matters while satisfying institutional demands.

For readers interested in Indigenous knowledge systems, collaborative research ethics, and stories about humans navigating impossible situations with humor and commitment.

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Las Marcas no se Borran

En 1977, en un pueblo atravesado por un río que divide clases y destinos, una joven archivista desaparece después de descubrir pruebas de despojo de tierras. Su investigación queda inconclusa. Sus documentos, dispersos. Su nombre, borrado de los registros oficiales. Casi cincuenta años después, su historia reaparece en manos de Carolina Martínez, una investigadora que hereda no solo cajas de papeles, grabaciones y fotografías, sino una pregunta incómoda: ¿qué hacer con una verdad que fue guardada para sobrevivir? 

Una novela coral narrada por mujeres que documentan, enseñan, marcan paredes, esconden archivos y esperan — recorriendo varias generaciones unidas por un mismo gesto: conservar pruebas cuando decir la verdad podía costar la vida. Esta novela funciona como novela previa a El Otro Lado del Río, ampliando el origen de los conflictos, los territorios y las historias que reaparecen en esa obra. Puede leerse de forma independiente, pero dialoga directamente con ella.

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El Otro Lado
del Río

Esteban Ibáñez hereda un lote de su madre en Monteluce, el sector élite de Cajibó. Cuando decide vendérselo a Camilo Barreto, un constructor proveniente de La Pedriza — el barrio popular al otro lado del río — reactiva una división de cincuenta años. Dos hombres que cargan silencios: Esteban fue guerrillero en los ochenta, presenció violencia, desertó, nunca testimonió en la JEP. Camilo sirvió en la Armada destruyendo casas de civiles en operaciones antidroga. Tampoco habló ante la Comisión de la Verdad. Ambos intentan ahora su propia forma de reparación — construir algo juntos. La familia de Esteban lo acusa de traicionar su clase. La comunidad de Camilo lo ve como un desertor. El puente que construyen no cruza a todos. No resuelve todo. Pero existe. Y en un país que lleva décadas intentando cerrar heridas, eso es significativo. Una novela necesaria para la Colombia post-acuerdos — sobre cómo se construye la paz en lo cotidiano, cuando los procesos oficiales no alcanzan.

Spanish · Dialoga directamente con Las Marcas No Se Borran 

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Hermanos
de Sangre 

A family saga that is also the story of Colombia itself — and a novel that dares to argue that reconciliation is possible.

En 1964 nacen Carlos y Nicolás Mendoza, hermanos mellizos en una familia bogotana de clase media. Siete minutos los separan al nacer — décadas de diferencias ideológicas los alejarán hasta convertirlos en extraños. 

Carlos se convierte en exitoso empresario del mundo del polo y los seguros, navegando las élites bogotanas con pragmatismo. Nicolás abraza la causa guerrillera del M-19, evoluciona hacia la política democrática, y termina conquistando la presidencia de Colombia después de décadas de lucha por la justicia social.

 A través de seis décadas de historia colombiana — desde la violencia de los años 70 hasta el proceso de paz del siglo XXI — los hermanos se protegen mutuamente en secreto, construyen familias en mundos opuestos, y aprenden que el amor fraternal puede sobrevivir cualquier diferencia ideológica. 

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Spanish: https://mybook.to/HermanosDeSangre  

Otros Delirios

After a stroke, Elena Arteaga enters a Bogotá hospital and discovers she is not alone. In its corridors, waiting rooms, and operating theaters live the people the system has discarded: those who died waiting for care, patients erased by bureaucracy, physicians broken by the machinery of healthcare administration. All of them marked by the clinical codes that reduce entire lives to initials and numbers.

A novel that crosses medical realism with the fantastical, social critique with family intimacy. Through a woman artist who learns to see the invisible, it exposes the everyday violence of healthcare systems and the human cost of institutional negligence — and asks how love persists even as memory unravels. For readers who want fiction that does what political analysis cannot: show what it feels like from the inside when the unthinkable becomes routine.

Literary fiction with magical realism 

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Forthcoming:
Memorias de Keketa

Forthcoming:
Papacito