Other Iris Prince

by Brando Skyhorse

Genres: Hispanic & Latino; Dystopian

Synopsis

Brando Skyhorse, the PEN/Hemingway Award–winning author of The Madonnas of Echo Park, returns with a riveting literary dystopian novel set in a near-future America where mandatory identification wristbands make second-generation immigrants into second-class citizens—a powerful family saga for readers of Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West and Rumaan Alam’s Leave the World Behind.

Iris Prince is starting over.

After years of drifting apart, she and her husband have just gone through a surprisingly drama-free divorce. She moved out of his condo into a house she picked out. She's got plans for gardening, neighborhood coffee clubs, and spending more time with her nine-year-old daughter Melanie. It feels like her life is finally exactly what she wants it to be.

Then, one beautiful morning, she looks outside her kitchen window—and sees a wall has appeared in her front yard overnight.

Where did it come from? What does it mean? Why does it keep growing?

And what is on the other side?

When a fantastic change threatens the fabric of her family, her own identity, and the life she's fought so hard to create, how far will Iris go to protect the things that ultimately matter to her most?

The Other Iris Prince is a powerful story about family, intolerance, and hope that offers a brilliant and timely look at one woman’s journey to discover who she can’t—and can—be.

Release date: August 1, 2023

Publisher: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster

Print pages: 256