Two women fight to save their dystopian border town-and literature-in this gonzo near-future
adventure. The year is 2038 and the formerly bustling town of Three Rivers Texas is a
surreal wasteland. Under the authoritarian thumb of its tech industrialist mayor Pablo Henry
Crick the town has outlawed reading and forced most of the town's mothers to work as
indentured laborers at the Big Tex Fish Cannery which poisons the atmosphere and lines Crick's
pockets. Scraping by in this godforsaken landscape are best friends Prosperina and Neftalí-the
latter of whom one of the town's last literate citizens hides and reads the books of the
mysterious renegade author Jazzmin Monelle Rivas whose last novel Brother Brontë is finally
in Neftalí's possession. But after a series of increasingly violent atrocities committed by
Crick's forces Neftalí and Prosperina with the help of a wounded bengal tigress three
scheming triplets and an underground network of rebel tías rise up to reclaim their city-and
in the process unlock Rivas's connection to Three Rivers itself. An adventure that only the
acclaimed Fernando A. Flores could dream up Brother Brontë is a mordant gonzo romp through a
ruined world that in its dysfunction tyranny and disparity nonetheless feels uncannily like
our own. With his most ambitious book yet Flores once again bends what fiction can do in the
process crafting a moving and unforgettable story of perseverance.
