Praise for Lady without Land

“Sharp and ferocious, uncompromising and funny, Lady Without Land is a maddening and compulsively readable novel, filled to the brim with brash anecdotes and tender insights, too, about family, sex, doubt, and the search for self. Proof positive that we all have stories we read and hear, desperate to find something to drown out our sorrows, and find ourselves serving up straight shots of our own defiant music.”

—Manuel Muñoz, author of What You See in the Dark and 2023 MacArthur Fellow

“Vazquez’s debut is exceptional. With mindblowing creativity, Lady Without Land’s original construct of following a young, Mexican woman’s life via literature and cocktail recipes is a powerful cultural education that is at times heartbreaking, poetic, funny, and at all times, of the highest literary value. A perfect blend of engaging plot and prose, Vazquez is sure to make a huge name in literature—and thank the Gods of Bartenders for such intoxicating new blood!”

—Shannon Kirk, international bestselling author of Method 15/33 and recipient of Literary Classics Seal of Approval for The Extraordinary Journey of Vivienne Marshall

“By turns witty, tragic, and wholly subversive, Krystal Anali Vazquez’s Lady without Land tracks a young Latina woman through a labyrinth of familial crises and relationship blunders, via the lens of putative book reviews and cocktail recipes. From LA to DC to, finally, New York, readers encounter this narrator’s growth as she navigates the socioeconomic ladder, routing herself through government bureaucracies and academic institutions, and with them, a host of (often preventable) wreckage. Through it all, Vazquez exudes a penchant for humor and satire, marking this intelligent tome as, quite simply, a compulsively readable and wildly entertaining debut.” 
—John James, author of The Milk Hours