With the mystery and suspense of the Pretty Little Liars series, the Hollywood drama of Lauren Conrad s "LA Candy," and the creepiness of Michelle Hodkin s "The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer," "Vivian Divine Is Dead" will thrill fans of emotionally charged, fast-paced, contemporary fiction.

Teen celebrity Vivian Divine has had a rough six months her movie-star mother was murdered, and her boyfriend cheated on her with her best friend. Through it all, she s had to smile for the camera this is the stuff the tabloids live for, after all.

When a death threat arrives with her fan mail, Vivian decides to run to Mexico, hoping to escape whoever it is who wants her dead. There, she finds an ally in the mysterious and charming Nick, but even he seems like he can t be trusted. As Vivian travels deeper into Mexico, she finds herself asking a horrifying question: If she can t hide from the paparazzi, what makes her think she can elude a madman?

Filled with surprising twists, poignant moments, and the snark of a Hollywood starlet suddenly on her own, "Vivian Divine Is Dead" brings a fresh new voice to contemporary fiction."

A young mother in Mexico City, captive to a past that both overwhelms and liberates her, and a house she cannot abandon or fully occupy, writes a novel of her days as a translator living in New York. A young translator, adrift in Harlem, is desperate to translate and publish the works of Gilberto Owen, an obscure Mexican poet who lived in Harlem during the 1920s and whose ghostly presence haunts her in the city s subways. And Gilberto Owen, dying in Philadelphia in the 1950s, convinced he is slowly disappearing, recalls his heyday decades before; his friendships with Nella Larsen, Louis Zukofsky, and Federico Garcia Lorca; and the young woman in a red coat he saw in the windows of passing trains. As the voices of the narrators overlap and merge, they drift into one single stream, an elegiac evocation of love and loss.

Valeria Luiselli s debut signals the arrival of a major international writer and an unexpected and necessary voice in contemporary fiction."