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in Lima, Peru

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Born in Lima, Peru, Natalia Sylvester is an award-winning writer of novels, essays, and poetry. CHASING THE SUN was named the Best Debut Book of 2014 by Latinidad Magazine and EVERYONE KNOWS YOU GO HOME won an International Latino Book Award and the 2019 Jesse H. Jones Award for Best Work of Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters. Her debut YA novel, RUNNING, was a 2020 Junior Library Guild Selection and her sophomore YA, BREATHE AND COUNT BACK FROM TEN, will be out in May 2022 from HarperCollins/Clarion Books.

Sylvester's essays have appeared in the New York Times, Bustle, Catapult, Latina magazine, and McSweeney’s Publishing, and have been widely anthologized. She received a BA in creative writing from the University of Miami and now ...more

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Average rating: 3.73 · 6,586 ratings · 1,045 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors

	Chasing the Sun 3.30 avg rating — 2,934 ratings — published 2014 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Everyone Knows You Go Home 4.08 avg rating — 1,610 ratings — published 2018 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Running 4.03 avg rating — 1,375 ratings — published 2020 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home by Nicole Chung (Goodreads Author) (Editor)(Introduction), Mensah Demary (Contributor)(Editor)(Intro.), Victoria Blanco (Goodreads Author) 3.98 avg rating — 815 ratings — published 2020 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	AOC: The Fearless Rise and Powerful Resonance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez by Lynda Lopez (Editor, Introduction), Keegan-Michael Key (Preface), Jennine Capo Crucet (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.68 avg rating — 703 ratings — published 2020 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Measure of Belonging: Writers of Color on the New American South by Cinelle Barnes (Goodreads Author) (Editor, Contributor), Jaswinder Bolina (Contributor), Regina N. Bradley (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.31 avg rating — 278 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Breathe and Count Back from Ten 4.22 avg rating — 278 ratings — published 2022 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Maleta Full of Treasures 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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RUNNING is out now!

Friends! THANK YOU all for celebrating the release of RUNNING with me!!

It's been a wild & wonderful time & I'm overjoyed by the support.

For those who are new here (hello!) -

RUNNING is about:
🇨🇺 a Cuban American teen whose dad runs for Prez
🥰 No romance, but explores friend & familial ❤️
🏠 Housing & environmental justice
👉🏼 Privilege & power in Latinx communities
🗣 Young activists
🦆 Miami: more ducks & Read more of this blog post »

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Published on August 14, 2020 09:55 • Tags: new-releases, ya-novels

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I used to hide my scars & now they're on my book cover. I'm so happy. BREATHE AND COUNT BACK FROM TEN is now available where ever books are sold. It's the story of Vero, a Peruvian American teen with hip dysplasia who auditions to become a mermaid at ...more
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Powerful and full of deep honesty. Everyone should read this book.
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“Lost time is gone forever. Nobody ever catches up.”
― Natalia Sylvester, Chasing the Sun

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“Grudges fade quickly when you’re faced with losing the ones you love.”
― Natalia Sylvester, Chasing the Sun

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“Things here were new, clean, better. But there were days when he felt he had traded his life for somebody else’s and gotten the wrong size.”
― Natalia Sylvester, Everyone Knows You Go Home

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“you can tell the deepest truths with the lies of fiction”
― Isabel Allende

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“Once when I asked you if you still loved your wife, you said, Love leaves the back door open. Later, you said, Love like a hospital gown opens at the back. And you slipped out.”
― Joan Connor, How to Stop Loving Someone

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“The hardest choices in life aren't between what's right and what's wrong but between what's right and what's best.”
― Jamie Ford, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

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“She watched the coals grow cooler and wondered if worlds grew cool as well. If existence faded like heat.”
― Owen Egerton, Everyone Says That at the End of the World

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“Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains.”
― Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers

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