Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| The Affairs of the Falcóns | 2019 | Buy |
| Flores and Miss Paula | 2023 | Buy |
Melissa Rivero has published two novels that center on the lives of immigrant women navigating identity, family, and survival. Her debut, The Affairs of the Falcons (2019), follows a Peruvian woman living undocumented in New York City during the 1990s as she tries to hold her family together under impossible pressure. Flores and Miss Paula (2023) continues to explore similar themes of displacement and resilience.
Both books are grounded in specific, lived-in details and deal with the kind of quiet, daily struggles that rarely get the spotlight in fiction. Rivero writes characters whose problems have no clean solutions, and that honesty gives her work real weight.