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Chantel Acevedo

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Called "a master storyteller" by Kirkus Reviews, Chantel Acevedo is the author of  Love and Ghost Letters, A Falling Star, The Distant Marvels, which was a finalist for the 2016 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and most recently, The Living Infinite, hailed by Booklist as a "vivid and enthralling tale of love and redemption." Her essays have appeared in Vogue and Real Simple, among others. THE MUSE SQUAD: THE CASSANDRA CURSE, is a new middle grade series forthcoming from Balzer + Bray. She is a Professor of English at the University of Miami, where she directs in the MFA program.

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Adios, Adios, Llego el Final

I've blown the dust off the old blog in order to say goodbye.

It's been fifteen years of posting semi-regularly.

Fifteen years ago, Orlando and I left Miami. We were younger and terrified of what was before us. South Florida was the only home we ever knew. And yet we drove our little Cuban selves to Pittsburgh, then to Connecticut, then to Alabama anyway. We earned degrees, had babies, published boo Read more of this blog post »
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The Distant Marvels

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The Curse on Spectacle Key

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The Cassandra Curse (Muse S...

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The Living Infinite

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A Falling Star

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Muse Squad: The Mystery of ...

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Song of the Red Cloak

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En Otro Oz

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“By contrast, I feel rather calm, as if I have swallowed the eye of the storm.”
Chantel Acevedo, The Distant Marvels
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“I've seen it before, what mothers and daughters can do to one another during those terrible adolescent years. Grief must be at the bottom of it, for what is sadder for a parent than seeing her daughter shedding girlhood drop by precious drop? And what is more terrifying for a child than to doubt her mother, to begin to see her as a human with faults instead of as a goddess?”
Chantel Acevedo, The Distant Marvels

“I would take a free and hopeful breath. It was settled. Fear would no longer be the weakness that undid me. I was seventeen and unsophisticated, and thought I could dig about in my soul for the mettle I needed, and that it would be enough.”
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