Kingdom Cons

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“[A] cunning little drama about the line separating art from agitprop.” Wall Street Journal

“His writing style is like nobody else’s, a unique turn of language, a kind of poetic slang.” New York Times

“Herrera combines a dreamlike setting with vigorous style.” Times Literary Supplement (London)

“Short, suspenseful…outlandish and heartbreaking.” New York Times Book Review

“Strikingly beautiful and thematically rich…the novel is a powerful and memorable meditation on the social and economic value of art in a world ruled by the pursuit of power.” Publishers Weekly

“Kingdom Cons displays…a gritty and highly stylized realism played out by dramatic, archetypal characters [and] exemplifies, in a host of ways, what leads people to delusional behavior.” Culture Trip

“Herrera is a jumbler of cultural forms, both literary and vernacular. Kingdom Cons is narrated with a bardic omniscience, a mythopoetic tone satisfyingly coarsened by slangy dialogue. The musicality of the prose turns the slim novel into its own kind of narcocorrido.” Americas Quarterly