Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2025 by the Los Angeles Times, Town & Country, and Alta "Brother Brontë evokes Octavia Butler, William Gibson, and John Steinbeck; these are all my favorites, and with this book, Fernando A. Flores joins the list." —Robin Sloan, author of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore "This crazy cakey world-making of Fernando A. Flores is all of literature, wide, plaintive, melancholy and full of feminist fellow joyousness and ways. Hated this world ending, I want more." —Eileen Myles Two women fight to save their dystopian border town—and literature—in this gonzo near-future adventure. The year is 2038, and the formerly bustling town of Three Rivers, Texas, is a surreal wasteland. Under the authoritarian thumb of its tech industrialist mayor, Pablo Henry Crick, the town has outlawed reading and forced most of the town’s mothers to work as indentured laborers at the Big Tex Fish Cannery, which poisons the atmosphere and lines Crick’s pockets. Scraping by in this godforsaken landscape are best friends Prosperina and Neftalí—the latter of whom, one of the town’s last literate citizens, hides and reads the books of the mysterious renegade author Jazzmin Monelle Rivas, whose last novel, Brother Brontë, is finally in Neftalí’s possession. But after a series of increasingly violent atrocities committed by Crick’s forces, Neftalí and Prosperina, with the help of a wounded bengal tigress, three scheming triplets, and an underground network of rebel tías, rise up to reclaim their city—and in the process, unlock Rivas’s connection to Three Rivers itself. An adventure that only the acclaimed Fernando A. Flores could dream up, Brother Brontë is a mordant, gonzo romp through a ruined world that, in its dysfunction, tyranny, and disparity, nonetheless feels uncannily like our own. With his most ambitious book yet, Flores once again bends what fiction can do, in the process crafting a moving and unforgettable story of perseverance.Brother Brontë out today! Come pick it. - Deep Vellum Books Come pick it up today or get a signed copy here on Thursday at 7pm, and see Fernando Flores in conversation with Riley Rennhack! Brother Brontë - Reviews - The StoryGraph Neftali and Proserpina are two friends in the near-future wasteland of Three Rivers, Texas, in a world where books are banned and shredded, and where the . Branwell - Soft Skull Press A Novel of the Bronta Brother. Choose a Format. Book Description. A gifted artist and writer, Branwell Bronte, an only son, is expected to make the family . Brother Brontë: A Novel | The Toadstool Bookshops Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2025 by the Los Angeles Times, Town & Country, and Alta"Flores's style has an exhilarating punk, . Brother Brontë: A Novel (Hardcover) | The Bookloft Fiction First Novel Prize and named a best book of 2019 by Tor.com. His fiction has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly . Brother Brontë: A Novel | Politics and Prose Bookstore Two women fight to save their dystopian border town—and literature—in this gonzo near-future adventure . Brother Brontë : A Novel - Casita Bookstore solidarity. Brother Brontë evokes Octavia Butler, William Gibson, and John Steinbeck; these are all my favorites, and with this book, Fernando A. Flores.