Books Rooted in Memory
Explore stories born from family, memory, culture, spirituality, and the voices so often left outside the written record.
The House the Fire Would Not Touch
Set in Barrio Barrancas, Guayama, Puerto Rico, this novel follows a boy growing up among cane fields, neighborhood streets, family stories, and the Caribbean Sea. Through friendship, loss, humor, and memory, Luis M. Madera Suárez preserves a community that time, migration, and even fire could not erase.
Some houses survive because someone remembers.
Language: English
Format: Paperback
The Night of Interwoven Worlds
Set in nineteenth-century Guayama, Puerto Rico, this novel follows a community where faith, memory, ancestry, and the unseen world meet. As families gather, mourn, pray, and confront the forces shaping their lives, the boundaries between the sacred and the ordinary begin to disappear.
Not an argument for belief, but an act of listening.
Language: English
Format: Paperback
Rosa
In this powerful theatrical monologue, an African woman torn from her homeland recovers her voice, her memory, and the right to tell her story beyond the documents of those who enslaved her.
Because there was once a time when her name was not broken.
Language: English
Format: Paperback