“The Book of Wanderers is a powerful short story collection that is as devastating as it is hopeful.”
—Foreword Reviews

“Ramirez shows stylistic range and a well-developed voice characterized by an affinity for the beautiful sentence, told his own way.”
—Southern Review of Books

“Ramirez has said before that multiple sources of inspiration were found for his stories. It shows through his excellent execution of these otherworldly dimensions.”
—Latinx in Publishing

“…The Book of Wanderers offers readers a versatile selection of stories that explore class, race, and the intrinsically-linked idea of structural inequality.”
—Infrarrealista Review

PRAISE FOR ‘THE BOOK OF WANDERERS’

"The Book of Wanderers is like nothing you've ever read. Each story is a world unto itself yet part of a larger constellation of subversive, inventive, and wildly funny tales. Every 'wanderer' interrogates the idea that inheritance is destiny—then richly upends it. Stop everything else you're doing and read this book!"
—Cristina García, author of Dreaming in Cuban & Here in Berlin

“Ramirez’s expert blending of observational humor, hard truths, and situational ennui makes for a reading experience that has you laughing one moment and crestfallen the next. The characters don’t only leap from the page, they haunt you and the way you navigate the known world around you that, upon closer inspection, is anything but.”
—Daniel Peña, author of Bang

“Wildly inventive, sometimes melancholy, and possessed of an abiding sense of compassion and justice, Reyes Ramirez’s collection is inhabited by a group of unforgettable wanderers exploring and redefining familiar, strange, and future worlds.”
—ire’ne lara silva, author of Cuicacalli / House of Song

“Reyes Ramirez is an exciting new Latinx fiction writer who dares to go where many writers cannot: into the imagination, into the future, but rooted in our own often oppressive and angry world.”
—Daniel Chacón, author of Kafka in a Skirt

“[The Book of Wanderers] tells a profound truth about the many realities constituting Latino/a/Hispanic life in the Americas… ultimately, Ramirez’s short story collection is singular, and the real deal.”
—Marcela Davison Aviles for Books We Love by NPR

“…a brilliant collection, experimenting with diverse genres from realism to speculative fiction, and always delivering the surreal and unexpected.”
—The Latin American Review of Books

What do a family of luchadores, a teen on the run, a rideshare driver, a lucid dreamer, a migrant worker
in space, a mecha soldier, and a zombie-and-neo-nazi fighter have in common?

The collection follows multiple characters of Mexican &/or Salvadoran descent in past, present, and future settings inspired by Houston. Readers will recognize many of the landmarks and cultural influences of H-Town in The Book of Wanderers, whether it be pro wrestling, driving on I-45, roadside memorials, the Ship Channel, and even its unique radio DJs. However, as the stories progress, their genres stray further from reality, ranging from hallucinatory realism to science fiction to the post-apocalyptic. Houston is a cosmopolitan metropolis in Texas that’s part of the South, West, and Southwest on the Gulf Coast that encompasses the urban, suburban, and rural while being near the Borderlands with connections to the cosmos through NASA.