Juan Alvarado Valdivia

About The Author

Juan Alvarado Valdivia was born to Peruvian parents and raised in Fremont, California. He is the author of ¡Cancerlandia!: A Memoir (UNM Press).

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Books by Juan Alvarado Valdivia

Ballad of a Slopsucker

Stories

By Juan Alvarado Valdivia

Based in Northern California and examining a variety of themes, including love, family, and masculinity, these stories offer an important new perspective on the experiences of Latinos and Latinas in the United States and complicate ideas of nationhood, identity, and the definition of home.

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¡Cancerlandia!

A Memoir

By Juan Alvarado Valdivia

Comic and unsparing, ¡Cancerlandia! chronicles Alvarado Valdivia's journey as he not only fights to survive his personified adversary, Mr. Hodgkins, but also as he struggles with his own self-destructive spirit.

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