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Natalia Sylvester

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Natalia Sylvester is the Pura Belpré- and Schneider Family-honor winning author of the young adult novel BREATHE AND COUNT BACK FROM TEN, and the award-winning author of the young adult novel RUNNING and the adult novels EVERYONE KNOWS YOU GO HOME and CHASING THE SUN. Her first picture book, A MALETA FULL OF TREASURES, illustrated by Juana Medina, is out now from Penguin Random House. Her debut middle grade novel, NO WAY NEVER SISTERS, co-written with Chantel Acevedo, is forthcoming in March 2026 from Simon & Schuster.

Natalia's non-fiction has appeared in the New York Times, Bustle, Catapult, Electric Literature, Latina magazine, and McSweeney's Publishing. Her essays have been anthologized in collections such as A MAP IS ONLY ONE STO
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Chasing the Sun

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Everyone Knows You Go Home

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Running

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Teachers, librarians, booksellers & reviewers: if you'd like to receive an early review copy of No Way Never Sisters No Way Never Sisters by Chantel Acevedo , my upcoming middle grade novel co-written with Chantel Acevedo, please fill out the form below! We're officially 6 months out from publication and we can't wait to share this book with you.

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“Lost time is gone forever. Nobody ever catches up.”
Natalia Sylvester, Chasing the Sun

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

“People talk about pain like it’s measurable. They’ll ask me to put it on a scale from one to ten. But I’ve been pushing it away so long it’s like my barometer’s broken. I don’t know if I can trust my mind. Or my body. I think part of me thinks I deserve it. Like I should endure it, because that would be the brave thing to do. To be strong.”
Natalia Sylvester, Breathe and Count Back from Ten

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Natalia Sylvester TFW you realize your next novel is now listed on Goodreads!!!

EVERYONE KNOWS YOU GO HOME will be out March 13, 2018—it's a multi-generational story about a family that immigrates from Mexico to Texas, and is visited by the spirit of the family's estranged patriarch every year on el Día de Los Muertos.

So excited to share this book with you! You can read a full description (and add it to your shelves to stay tuned for updates...like the cover reveal!) at the link:

Everyone Knows You Go Home


Natalia Sylvester If you'll be in the Houston area this weekend, I'd love to see you at my next event for CHASING THE SUN! I'll be at Blue Willow Bookshop Saturday, August 9 at 4 p.m. reading and signing copies of the book.

Details are on my Goodreads profile or you can also see more on FB:

https://www.facebook.com/events/89711...


Natalia Sylvester For book clubs: I just added discussion questions for Chasing the Sun: A Novel to my website: http://www.nataliasylvester.com/contact/

Also, if your book club is interested in having me visit via Skype, please do get in touch! I love getting to know readers.


Natalia Sylvester The publishing date for CHASING THE SUN has changed by a couple of weeks: now coming June 3rd, 2014. In the meantime, I hope you'll check it out, add it to your list, or share with friends! Thanks!

Chasing the Sun A Novel by Natalia Sylvester


Natalia Sylvester And then, there was a cover! So excited to share it: Chasing the Sun by Natalia Sylvester


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