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Andrés N. Ordorica

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Andrés N. Ordorica is a queer Latinx writer based in Edinburgh. Drawing on his family’s immigrant history and third culture upbringing, his writing maps the journey of diaspora and unpacks what it means to be from ni de aquí, ni de allá (neither here, nor there). He is the author of the poetry collections, At Least This I Know and Holy Boys, and the novel, How We Named The Stars. He has been shortlisted for the Kavya Prize, Morley Lit Prize, the Mo Siewcharran Prize and the Saltire Society’s Poetry Book of The Year. In 2024, he was selected as one of The Observer’s 10 Best Debut Novelists.

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I devoured this incredibly sumptuous and evocative memoir. Goh’s hybrid and very personal exploration of the history of the orange, migration and colonialism is richly alive. From its opening sentence to its final last page, Foreign Fruit roots its a ...more
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A moving, profound and atmospheric exploration of place, family, and pain, ultimately rooting itself in love.
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"This was beautiful. I may come back and up the story to 5 stars in the end. I laughed, I cried, I wanted to punch a character. Hope to revisit this author as soon as possible "
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"I absolutely loved this book. It was an exceptional view into love and loss. I found myself in the way that Daniel processes his grief. I loved how it felt like you were reading someone's journal. I'm so glad it caught my interest at the library."
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" It ripped your heart out? It made you cry? I think you are eligible for compensation!!! <3 <3 <3 <3 "
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“I’d always known, in some way, that you weren’t going to be my forever, but rather a season. Even with that understanding, it still hurt.”
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“thought about how, for so much of my life, I’d survived by staying quiet, making myself small enough to fly under the radar. I decided then that I no longer wanted to be quiet. I wanted to be loud and colorful and every piece of myself at any one time. As I lay there, I began to dream of”
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