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Winner of the 2020 Chicago Review of Books Award (CHIRBy) in Fiction
Finalist for the 2020 Heartland Booksellers Award in Fiction
A NPR Best Book of 2020
A BookPage Best Book of 2020
An A.V. Club Best Book of 2020
A Los Angeles Public Library Best Book of 2020
A Library Journal Best Winter/Spring Debut of 2020
A Boston Globe Most Anticipated Book of 2020
The Millions Most Anticipated: The Great First-Half 2020 Book Preview
A Best Book of February 2020 at Salon, Lit Hub, Vol 1. Brooklyn, and Chicago Review of Books
Winner of the 2020 Chicago Review of Books Award (CHIRBy) in Fiction
Finalist for the 2020 Heartland Booksellers Award in Fiction
A NPR Best Book of 2020
A BookPage Best Book of 2020
An A.V. Club Best Book of 2020
A Los Angeles Public Library Best Book of 2020
A Library Journal Best Winter/Spring Debut of 2020
A Boston Globe Most Anticipated Book of 2020
The Millions Most Anticipated: The Great First-Half 2020 Book Preview
A Best Book of February 2020 at Salon, Lit Hub, Vol 1. Brooklyn, and Chicago Review of Books
Hanover Square Press/HarperCollins
“Hypnotizing…Zapata reinterprets the extent and toll of exile on Earth, the gulf between universes of human experience.”
— The New York Times Book Review
"Smart and heart-piercing, Lost Book is a story of displacement, erasure, identity, mythology, and the ability of literature to simultaneously express and transcend our lives — not to mention reality."
— NPR
"Deftly conjured…thematically vital…Zapata’s carefully crafted prose oscillates between matter-of-fact and lyrically poetic."
— The Washington Post
“[An] expansive, big-hearted and time-hopping debut…[Zapata’s] sensibility is one of great love for human beings and for life itself.”
— The Chicago Tribune
“An absolutely stunning piece of work, and it is the best book you’ll read so far this year.”
— Newcity Lit
[An] elegant and sweeping multigenerational, international story of lives marked by political violence and bound by the shared condition of exile.”
— Salon
“In a lyrical tale spanning a century and veering from the colonized Caribbean to revolutionary Russia, from mid-twentieth-century Chicago to Katrina-besieged New Orleans, Zapata spins an iridescent web of grief, loss, and memory...A lush, spellbinding tale.”
— Booklist STARRED Review
"Zapata’s lyrical style has firm roots in Gabriel García Márquez’s work, with a boldness of delivery to the tune of Jorge Luis Borges...Zapata has treated us to a thrillingly mysterious storyline with a beautiful payoff."
--BookPage STARRED review
"An illuminating work on trauma and the transience of human existence... A heady literary and genre-bending novel for fans of Jorge Luis Borges, Carlos Fuentes, and Adolfo Bioy Caseres."
--Library Journal STARRED review