Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Tourists | 2014 | Julianne Pachico | Buy |
The Tourists (2014) established Julianne Pachico as a writer to watch. The collection brings together stories set in Colombia, moving between wealthy enclaves, rural areas, and the spaces in between, all of them marked by the presence of the conflict even when it stays offstage. The writing is precise and carefully controlled, and the collection won praise for the way it refused to reduce Colombia to its violence while still taking that violence seriously.
The linked structure of the stories gives the book a cumulative power. By the end, the reader has accumulated a sense of a whole society rather than a series of isolated individual experiences. For readers coming to Pachico for the first time, The Tourists is a good starting point before moving to her longer fiction.