Yuri Herrera Books in Order

A singer finds patronage at the court of a powerful drug lord, where his ballads help sustain the ruler's reputation. As he observes the violence behind the glamour, artistic independence becomes entangled with loyalty and dangerous truths.

An epidemic has emptied a city where two feuding criminal families each hold the other's dead. The Redeemer negotiates an exchange, navigating intimate loyalties and old hostilities as disease and violence make every encounter precarious.

Herrera reconstructs a 1920 mine fire in Pachuca, Mexico, where officials sealed the mine after an evacuation and concealed the scale of the disaster. His account restores workers' experiences while examining corporate responsibility and the management of public memory.

These short speculative stories explore unfamiliar worlds through conscious objects, detectives, strange creatures, and alien encounters. Their shifting perspectives turn questions of identity, borders, and domination into unsettling parables about the habits and contradictions of human life.

During his exile in New Orleans, Benito Juárez works odd jobs and joins fellow Mexican dissidents plotting their return. The city's music, disease, and slave economy shape an imagined account of a largely undocumented period in his life.