Catalina

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

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Hutchinson
12 August 2025

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fiction: special features; Migration, immigration & emigration; Hispanic & Latino studies

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2024

'Sparkling' NEW YORK TIMES 'Magnetic' IRA GLASS 'Fierce' TIME

When Catalina, a witty, vulnerable and beautiful Ecuadorian student, arrives at Harvard, she feels like one of the chosen. She is a miracle child who has escaped death in Latin America to be raised by undocumented grandparents and now studies at the most prestigious university in the world. She knows she has to play the part, but she also wants to have a good time in the process. And so begins her era of opulent parties, secret societies, desirable internships, flings with rich men and plenty of vodka sodas.

But in her final year, undocumented immigrants become the target of political turmoil and Catalina's life back in New York begins to unravel. As the clock ticks on the precarious future of her family, what will she sacrifice to save the people she loves the most?

Catalina is a daring, glamorous and sharply observed campus novel about coming into your own and the endless possibilities of freedom, love and power.

'She is a worthy student of Gabriel Garcia Marquez' The Atlantic ' A

fresh and unflinching take on the campus novel' PEOPLE 'Destined to be a contemporary American classic' FRANCISCO GOLDMAN, author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Monkey Boy

By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Imprint: Hutchinson
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 135mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 300g
ISBN: 9781529155341
ISBN 10: 1529155347
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 12 August 2025
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio is the author of the National Book Award finalist The Undocumented Americans. Her work, which focuses on race, culture, and immigration, has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vogue, Elle, n+1, The New Inquiry, Interview, and on NPR. Catalina is her first novel.