Acclaimed Mexican novelist Hernán Lara Zavala combines real-life newspaper articles and interviews with renderings of key events, laying the state-sanctioned narrative of Charras’s death beside the actual experiences of those involved. To kaleidoscopic effect, Zavala enters not only the mind of the hero but also those in his orbit: the governor of the Yucatán, Charras’s bureaucrat brother-in-law, even the mercenary hired to carry out the kidnapping—the chilling “you” whose point-of- view the reader must inhabit to unravel what took place during that fateful spring of 1974.
Christopher Louis Romaguera is a Cuban-American writer who lives in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was born in Hialeah, Florida, and graduated from Florida International University in Miami, Florida. He has an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of New Orleans. Romaguera has been published in Catapult, New Orleans Review, The Daily Beast and other publications. He was a monthly columnist at The Ploughshares Blog and the Poetry Editor at Peauxdunque Review. Romaguera is a VONA alum. Romaguera was a 2023 Periplus Fellow. His translation of the novel, CHARRAS, was published by UNO Press in 2025.
Hernán Lara Zavala (28 February 1946 – 15 March 2025) was a Mexican novelist, literary critic and academic at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
Baynard Woods is an award-winning writer and journalist based in Baltimore. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Oxford American Magazine, and many other publications. He is coauthor, with Brandon Soderberg, of I GOT A MONSTER: THE RISE AND FALL OF AMERICA'S MOST CORRUPT POLICE SQUAD. His memoir, INHERITANCE, explores what it means to reckon with whiteness in America today and what it might mean to begin to repair the past.
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